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Clock is ticking on county budget A county government shutdown is possible in the spending plan standoff. The County Council will meet again Wednesday, which is the deadline for a budget that contains a tax increase.

By Noah Haglund

2015 budget.

If the five council members fail to muster at least four votes for a new budget plan by Dec. 31, all but the most essential government functions would cease as of Jan. 1.

“I look forward to working with all of you to make sure we don’t take that route,” Councilwoman Stephanie Wright said.

Wright was on the short end of

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EVERETT — Snohomish County lawmakers sounded a cooperative tone on the budget Monday, even as the gravity of failing to get over their disagreements became clearer.

The impasse stems from Executive John Lovick’s decision Wednesday to veto the council’s

the 3-2 vote council vote that led to the budget’s approval late last month.

Council Chairman Dave Somers, who played a lead role drafting the budget that Lovick vetoed, said he also feels the sense of urgency.

“We all share council member Wright’s strong commitment to work this out and avoid a shutdown,” Somers said.

It’s unclear what a shutdown would look like. County attorneys could find no sign that it’s ever happened in Washington.

“There are a number of issues that are unprecedented in Washington state,” said Jason

Cummings, the county’s chief civil deputy prosecutor. “It’s the first time that our office that has been able to identify that a county has been in a situation where there’s been a concern of an inability to pass a budget. That is all hypothetical at this point, because the council has a certain amount of time within which it can act.”

The County Council on Monday hinted at ways to reach consensus but didn’t take action.

Concrete proposals are likely to surface during the council’s regular meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Before then, expect a flurry of one-on-one meetings behind closed doors and efforts to draft

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compromise legislation.

The council’s operating budget would have provided for about $226 million in services. Because it set aside recent property-tax increases to pay for a new $162 million courthouse, the council version of the budget had less money available than Lovick’s $230 million plan for next year.

Lovick’s budget used the extra taxes for other needs, reasoning that bonds for the future courthouse wouldn’t come due until 2016.

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Input sought on rules for rural pot The Planning Commission will hold a hearing today as it seeks recommendations for the County Council on marijuana businesses in unincorporated areas.

By Amy Nile Herald Writer

have been pushing for the clarification for nearly a decade. What happened at Oso — where local resources were overwhelmed — added urgency to those conversations.

The Joint SR 530 Landslide Commission was created by Gov. Jay Inslee and Snohomish

EVERETT — Marijuanaenterprise owners are expected to plead for their businesses at a public hearing before the Snohomish County Planning Commission on Tuesday.

Neighbors who oppose pot operations also plan to weigh in before the commission makes a recommendation to the County Council.

The council asked for recommendations as it considers amending the rules for marijuana businesses in the spring. In October, the council imposed a temporary moratorium on new pot operations in some of the county’s rural areas after some neighbors voiced opposition.

Meantime, an emergency ordinance is in place until April 1.

It bans state-licensed growers, processors and retailers in some rural areas that weren’t already in business as of Oct. 1. It also put in place another measure that bans new collective gardens and dispensaries for medical marijuana along a one-mile stretch of Highway 9 in Clearview.

Initiative 502, passed in 2012, regulates Washington’s recreational marijuana system, but some local jurisdictions have been imposing limited or total

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OSO — Twenty years ago, the Legislature passed a law governing how statewide resources would be deployed to wildfires and other major emergencies.

Over time, that got convoluted in legal interpretation. When

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percent cuts to most county departments. The decrease was half that amount for the Sheriff’s Office, which also operates the jail.

The council’s spending plan highlighted sharp differences with Lovick’s administration.

They cut funding in half, to $450,000, for the First Steps program that supports young mothers and newborns; rolled back salary increases for six toplevel managers in Lovick’s administration; and abruptly cut a recently hired

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bans on such businesses.

The Planning Commission hearing is at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday on the first floor of the Snohomish County Administration Building-East, 3000 Rockefeller Ave. in Everett. After the hearing, the Planning Commission will consider recommendations on regulations to present to the County Council.

The prohibition of recreational pot businesses now applies to those in R-5 zones and in the Clearview rural commercial area, which covers about 116 acres along Highway 9. R-5 zones are rural areas where the county typically permits only one house per five acres, with some exceptions.

With increasing political pressure from neighbors and organizations opposed to having marijuana businesses nearby, dozens of existing and would-be producers in the R-5 zone have formed a group

manager at the Medical Examiner’s Office, leaving the department leaderless.

The most urgent question to resolve is whether to include new property taxes in next year’s budget.

Wednesday is the deadline.

After that, it will be too late for the county treasurer to add the tax increase to the tax rolls, Cummings said.

A 1 percent increase in the county’s general levy would add about $822,000 next year. That could help smooth over some of the differences between Lovick’s administration and a majority of the council. In theory, that could help avoid some staff cuts and restore funding for First Steps.

Both Lovick and Somers supported the 1 percent tax increase, but it got voted down by a majority of the council. It would cost an extra $2.53 per year for the owner of a house assessed at the countywide average of $244,000.

Reaching agreements on the budget will require council members to set aside disagreements that have grown increasingly personal.

On Friday, Councilman Brian Sullivan sent Somers a letter criticizing his leadership and accusing him of seeking political gain by disagreeing with Lovick. All council members and The Daily Herald were copied on the letter.

Sullivan wrote about being disappointed in the decision of a majority of the council to spend $15,000 to hire an attorney to investigate alleged comments by Lovick’s top administrator, Deputy Executive Mark Ericks. Somers and two other councilmen believe Ericks’ comments were hostile and threatening toward them.

Meanwhile, county managers need to prepare in case council members can’t resolve the deadlock.

“As we move forward, one of our main concerns is what happens in a government shutdown,” Cummings told the council.

Should that happen, law enforcement and

the jail would have to keep running. Some law enforcement duties of a less urgent nature might need to be put on hold.

Public safety isn’t the only mandatory or essential function of government.

Under state law, the county is obligated to continue some investment and tax functions, treasurer Kirke Sievers said.

There’s also the question of trash disposal, given the essential role of county transfer stations.

There’s little case law and few past examples to guide the county.

“By no means is this a clear-cut pathway — it’s not,” Cummings said.

known as the R5 Cooperative. The businesses fear that the county might permanently prohibit marijuana producers and retailers after they have invested in launching the businesses. That has happened in a number of jurisdictions across Washington.

The state Liquor Control Board, which regulates I-502 businesses, has approved more than 80 producers and processors, but there now are four legal marijuana growing and processing businesses operating, having beat the Oct. 1 moratorium.

The county Department of Planning and Development Services has offered four options for commissioners to consider, including doing nothing, making pot operations a conditional use in R-5, banning them in those zones or allowing them with certain development standards: ■ The do-nothing option would keep in place regulations adopted by the County Council in November 2013 which allow state-licensed marijuana production and processing

in two rural zones, including R-5, an agricultural zone, and four urban zones.

■ The second option would change pot production and processing to a “conditional use” in the R-5 zone.

Operators would have to go through a public-hearing process and demonstrate that their business meets certain standards. The county Hearing Examiner could impose additional requirements to ensure compatibility with the surrounding area and protect the rural character of a neighborhood. Depending on the number of applications, this option could require significant county staff time would be costly for operators.

■ Another option would prohibit pot production and processing in R-5 but continue to allow it in the remaining six zones.

Department of Planning and Development Services Director Clay White said this would give the county time to see how such businesses affect surrounding areas.

If experience proves the operations are compatible with the R-5 zone, the rules

could then be changed.

“It’s the start-small option,” White said, noting his department’s support of it.

Such a ban could be detrimental to dozens of R-5 businesses already in the process of getting up and running.

■ The fourth option would impose a number of requirements to address concerns about marijuana production and processing in R-5 zones, such as setback rules to provide physical separation and additional landscape screening to address such things as lighting, odor and noise.

The R5 Cooperative has hired land-use consultant Reid Shockey to help navigate the complex zoning issues. He wrote a letter to the commission urging it recommend the fourth option to allow grow operations in R-5 zones under certain conditions.

Jamie Curtismith, another advocate for the R5 Cooperative, said the complex regulatory issues have discouraged some operators. A handful of marijuana businesses have decided to leave the

county, she said.

“Prohibition is not an option,” she said. “That’s a reefer-madness mentality.”

Curtismith, of Everett, said the marijuana industry needs to quell fears by providing accurate information about how the businesses will affect surrounding areas.

That’s exactly what Alice Johnson has been trying to find out since a grow operation set up shop near her rural Arlington home last year. Johnson said she wants to know what goes on at a such a site and what it means for neighbors. She has concerns related to water use, waste disposal, environmental effects, lighting, noise and odor.

“It’s absolutely intolerable,” she said. “It smells like a skunk. It’s not like they’re just growing plants and not offending their neighbors.

This just doesn’t belong here.”

The council will hold another public hearing on the matter before making a decision, but a date has not been set.

Amy Nile: 425-339-3192; anile@heraldnet.com.

Twitter: @AmyNileReports.

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Governor announces $2.3B education plan On Thursday he will say where the money will come from to pay for all-day kindergarten, smaller classes, teacher raises, a 2-year college tuition freeze and more.

By Donna Gordon Blankinship Associated Press

SEATTLE — Gov. Jay Inslee has a plan for putting $2.3 billion more into preschool through college education and workforce training and for meeting Washington state’s obligation to the state

Supreme Court a year early.

But he won’t say where he’s going to get the money until Thursday, when he releases his full budget proposal.

On Monday evening, he announced his education policy initiatives at a town-hall style meeting in person in Bellevue and

on video screens in Moses Lake, Spokane and Tacoma.

In 2012, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that lawmakers are not meeting their constitutional responsibility to fully pay for basic education and that they were relying too much on local tax-levy dollars. The court gave the Legislature until the 201718 school year to fix the problem.

“We have a very solid, fiscally sound, secure and stable way of financing everything I’ve talked about today,” the governor said

in response to a question from Spokane at his town hall meeting. “I can tell you it’s a real financing plan. It is not based on indebtedness.”

Inslee’s ambitious agenda includes money for all-day kindergarten and smaller classes in the early grades by the 2016-17 school year, plus money to finish paying for classroom materials and supplies.

In answer to questions about improving graduation rates, the governor said an investment in

Zoe’s wish is healing hearts Before her death in October, Zoe Galasso was a passionate young artist.

By Chris Winters Herald Writer

MARYSVILLE — Zoe Galasso, one of the shooting victims at Marysville Pilchuck High School, was an artist.

Shortly before the Oct. 24 shootings that left her and four other students dead and a sixth student seriously injured, she drew a stylized peace symbol surrounded by the words, “Make Love, Not War.” Zoe’s mother, Michelle Galasso, decided to donate the artwork, now titled “Zoe’s Wish,” to an online fundraiser run by a local custom-apparel company.

The drawing by Zoe, who was 14 when she died, is now one of three designs by Marysville Pilchuck students on Curacy Apparel’s “Healing HeARTS” fundraiser.

Curacy CEO Mel McGhee said Michelle Galasso reached out to the company after hearing about the fundraiser and reading about it in the Daily Herald.

“She just thought this was a way for Zoe’s Wish to get out there,” McGhee said.

The original idea was to provide a venue for students at Marysville Pilchuck to heal through art.

“This is another part of her healing process, which is the whole point of all of this,” McGhee said of Michelle Galasso.

Zoe Galasso had numerous sketchbooks and was passionate about her artwork, McGhee said.

McGhee said she hopes other students will continue to submit artwork to Curacy.

“Healing is a process, it’s not a one-time thing,” she said.

The T-shirts are made to order and cost $24. More information is online at curacyapparel.com/

Lawyer: She didn’t mean to stab her boyfriend

By Diana Hefley Herald Writer

United Way of Snohomish County will continue to operate “as is,” fully independent and focused on its own community. United Ways of the Pacific Northwest will act as a trade association for its member organizations, which pay dues to belong.

There are two big goals for the change, said Smith and Neil Parekh, vice president of marketing and communications for the local United Way. A regional entity will bring opportunities for joint training and a greater voice in public policy.

“Working together, we can

EVERETT — Theirs was an imperfect romance.

He ended up on an Everett convenience store floor, bleeding from a slice to his trachea.

She ended up behind bars and now is on trial, accused of stabbing him with the knife he gave her for Christmas.

Tiana Star Cox, 19, of Shoreline, cried and dabbed at tears as lawyers gave opening statements Monday afternoon. She is charged with first-degree domestic violence assault with a deadly weapon for the Dec. 26, 2013, bloodshed.

Star Cox didn’t intend to cut her boyfriend’s throat, defense attorney Christine Sanders said.

There was a struggle for the knife after an argument over booze.

Star Cox didn’t want to drink anymore Fireball whiskey but her boyfriend was upset that he’d been the one to finish most of the bottle. He threatened to cut her up and throw her in the river. He also slammed her head and punched her, her lawyer said.

Star Cox was abused by the man, the jury was told. He was seven years older and street savvy. He isolated her from her family, put her down and controlled her. She was defending herself. She wanted the abuse and bullying to stop, Sanders said.

“She had no intention to hurt him for the sake of hurting him,” the defense attorney said.

Jurors were told that Star Cox will testify. A psychologist also is expected to explain why some people don’t leave abusive relationships and how Star Cox shows signs of post traumatic stress disorder.

Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Tobin Darrow said on Monday that Star Cox’s own words hours after the stabbing indicate that she was waiting to assault her boyfriend.

She had the knife and said she “‘planned to attack him if he reached toward her,’” Darrow said.

The man is lucky to be alive.

The 4-inch blade didn’t hit any major arteries in his neck and when stabbed into his chest it didn’t go deep enough to cause significant damage.

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“Zoe’s Wish,” a pen and ink drawing by Zoe Galasso, one of three designs by Marysville Pilchuck students on Curacy Apparel’s “Healing HeARTS” fundraiser.

healing-hearts.

All the profits from the fundraiser are dedicated to the

By Julie Muhlstein

MPHS Recovery Fund administered by the Rotary Education Foundation.

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The Shoreline woman, charged with first-degree domestic violence assault, claims she was abused.

Chris Winters: 425-3744165; cwinters@heraldnet.com.

Twitter: @Chris_At_Herald.

CEO Smith to lead the United Ways They’re not legally married yet, but United Way associations in Washington and Oregon are pairing up in an effort to do more for their communities. The leader of United Way of Snohomish County will serve as the first chairman of the new organization, United Ways of the Pacific Northwest.

Dennis G. Smith, United Way of Snohomish County’s president and CEO, will continue in that role as he fills the regional group’s chairmanship for its first year. His new role, like his service on several local boards, is unpaid.

“We’re excited about the

early childhood education is one of the best things the state can do.

In addition to budget plans related to the education lawsuit, the governor is proposing: ■■ Two more years without a college tuition increase.

■■ Raises for public school teachers, adding up to more than half a million dollars.

■■ More money for college scholarships, including a big investment in Opportunity Scholarships for

Snohomish County teens, ages 14-19, are needed for volunteer projects on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Jan. 19, as part of the annual MLK Day of Service. It’s a partnership of United Way of Snohomish County, YMCA of Snohomish County, Catholic Community Services, Senior Corps-RSVP and United Parcel Service. Groups are encouraged to sign up as teams. Sign-up deadline is Jan. 12. Register online at www.uwsc. org/mlkday.php or email youthunited@uwsc.org. Or call 425-374-5530.

Adult volunteers also needed. To lead a teen group, email: michelle. morris@uwsc.org possibilities ahead of us,” Smith said in a statement announcing the change. On Monday, he said the regional group, crossing state borders, will be a first nationwide.

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Higher insurance rating for some Property owners served by Snohomish County Fire District 1 might be eligible for a reduction in fire insurance premiums next year.

The Washington Survey and Rating Bureau recently upgraded the fire-protection classifica-

organizations — 23 members from United Ways of Washington and 16 from the Association of United Ways in Oregon — will be part of the new group.

Smith emphasized that

tion for District 1, which most insurance companies use to set rates.

The fire protection ratings are on a scale of 1 to 10. Fire District 1’s rating was upgraded from a Class 4 to Class 3, placing it in the top 6.2 percent in the state, according to Chief Ed Widdis.

No department in the state has a Class 1 rating, and just four have a Class 2 rating.

“This is quite an achievement,” Widdis said.

Fire District 1 serves southern parts of unincorporated Snohomish County and the cities of Brier, Edmonds and Mountlake Terrace, with full-time staffing at 12 fire stations serving nearly 200,000 residents.

The Washington Survey and Rating Bureau spent about a month collecting and analyz-

ing data. Factors in the rating included water supplies available to fight fires, capabilities of 911 emergency dispatch and community fire prevention activities.

The rating bureau recommends property owners contact their insurance agents about how the new rating will affect insurance premiums.

The new rating becomes effective Feb. 1.

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students interested in technology or health care fields.

■ Dollars to help students who need things like clothing, meals and medical care.

■ Drop-out prevention in both middle and high schools.

■ Another $78.8 million to add 6,358 more spaces for low-income children in state-funded preschools, which would increase the program’s reach to 70

percent of eligible kids.

■ More than $14 million for job training, basic education and preapprenticeship work at community colleges.

Inslee’s budget fully funds the overlap between the class size initiative passed by voters last month and previous class size reductions approved by the Legislature: paying to shrink kindergarten through third grade classes to an average of 17 kids.

That would cost the state nearly half a million dollars over two years for hiring more than 7,000 new teachers. But the initiative called

for decreases in class size at every grade.

Money to pay for more classroom space to house those extra teachers will come later, in the state building budget for the next budget cycle, said David Schumacher, director of the Office of Financial Management.

Republican lawmakers are not happy with what they have heard so far of the governor’s education plans.

They want to see the governor’s plan for answering the Supreme Court’s criticism of the state’s overreliance on local levy dollars to pay for education.

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They think the governor is not showing leadership on what to do with the class size Initiative 1351, a measure that at least a few lawmakers in that caucus say they support suspending for the next budget cycle. And they don’t think new revenue sources are needed for education.

“We’re tired of our children being held hostage for the next tax increase,” said Sen. Bruce Dammeier, R-Puyallup. “We need a thoughtful and comprehensive solution for our schools. I have not seen that in the governor’s proposal.”

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The victim, however, was convinced he was going to die.

The attack happened inside his car after he stopped to buy a beer. The couple had gone fishing and then drove around Whidbey Island looking for a place to have sex, jurors were told. They headed back to Everett and stopped at a convenience store. He took off his seat belt and “suddenly realized his throat had been cut.”

He then realized that Star Cox was the one attacking him, Darrow said.

“She slashed at him with the knife he had given her

Charges recommended in fatal wreck

By Rikki King Herald Writer

ARLINGTON — An Arlington man allegedly was speeding up to 100 mph before his car struck a tree in Arlington Heights in February, killing a passenger.

Snohomish County sheriff’s collision detectives recently forwarded their investigation to county prosecutors for review. Detectives have recommended a vehicular homicide charge for

the man, who turned 20 in August. Killed was Nicole A. Wiebe, 18, of Stanwood.

She had been sitting in the backseat.

The crash was caused by excessive speed, and no drugs or alcohol were involved, police determined.

The crash happened at 11:38 a.m. Feb. 16 along 240th Street NE, east of Arlington. The driver was trying to “get air off one of the rolling roadway hills,” detectives wrote in case records. The young man

reportedly told police he thought the speed limit in the area was about 40 mph.

All three young people in the car were wearing their seatbelts when the driver lost control of the car, a black Lexus.

The Lexus went through three fences before striking a fir tree. It snapped the tree off at the base, then broke through another fence and came to rest in a field.

Wiebe died at the scene.

The driver and another passenger, also a young

man from Arlington, were taken to the hospital for minor injuries.

Vehicular homicide is a felony under state law, most often applied in drunken-driving fatalities.

The driver in the Arlingtonarea crash has no serious criminal history in Washington. The Herald is not naming him because no charges have been filed.

The detectives’ findings and charging recommendation were obtained through a public records request.

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have a stronger influence in each of the state houses,” Smith said. As an example of how that helps locally, he pointed to the state organization’s work in Olympia to push for North Sound 211, the call-in line connecting people here to health and human services. The referral service is operated

by Volunteers of America Western Washington.

And by putting two state organizations together, larger training events with high-quality presenters will be possible, they said.

Jim Cooper is president and CEO of United Ways of Washington. Based in Olympia, he will assume

3 still in hospital after Camano crash Herald staff CAMANO ISLAND — A 15-year-old Camano Island girl remained in intensive care Monday at Harborview Medical Center after

Thursday night’s crash near Hanstad Road.

The girl was one of three people injured when the van they were in collided with another vehicle on Highway 532 west of

Stanwood. The van’s driver, a 45-year-old woman, and another passenger, a boy, 11, remained hospitalized in Seattle Monday, listed in satisfactory condition.

Michael S. Rossner, 71, of

Camano Island, died at the scene. Washington State Patrol troopers believe his sport utility vehicle crossed the centerline and collided with the van. The crash investigation continues.

as a Christmas present,” Darrow said.

The man escaped from the car and staggered into the store and collapsed. He was lying on the ground, covered in blood when police arrived. Star Cox also was on the floor. Officers reported that she was crying and slurring her words.

She allegedly admitted that she stabbed her boyfriend.

She later told detectives that the man threatened to hurt her while they were driving back from fishing.

Once at the police station Star Cox kept yelling, “Baby, I love you.”

Diana Hefley: 425339-3463; hefley@ heraldnet.com. Twitter: @ dianahefley

that role for the regional group. Keith Thomajan, president and CEO of United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, will serve as vice chairman.

The merger won’t be sealed for about two years.

At a November meeting, the Washington and Oregon groups agreed to begin working together “as if we were one regional association,” Smith said.

But they are separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit groups with their own bylaws.

“United Ways of Washington still exists legally, but we’re not using that name,” Parekh said.

If the pairing works as expected, new bylaws will be written and United Ways of the Pacific Northwest will be official.

Julie Muhlstein: 425339-3460; jmuhlstein@ heraldnet.com.

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Other commission recommendations include: Incorporate skilled volunteers into disaster responses, such as loggers who played a valuable role in Oso. Create a task force to study emergency management at the state level. Have the task force deliver a report to the governor in 2016.

Create liaisons to work directly with tribes after disasters.

Increase disaster response funding.

Develop standards for requesting, tracking, mobilizing and demobilizing resources such as personnel and equipment.

Continue to study and monitor the Oso slide area.

Establish a better system for creating lists of missing people after disasters and for communicating with families of the missing and dead.

Use more social media to communicate after disasters.

expenses, particularly unpredictable expenses.

The way the law has been interpreted, the Washington State Patrol could be on the hook for the tab if it approves a wildfire mobilization for anything but a fire, according to fire chiefs.

Those pushing for the change are trying to clear up confusion about the funding sources and build bipartisan support, said lobbyist Dylan Doty with the state fire chiefs group.

“We view it as more of a technical correction than a policy shift,” Doty said Monday. “This is the original intent of the (law). We view this as a dangerously narrow interpretation that we’re trying to correct.”

State mobilization has been requested 180 times since 1994, according to state data. Oso was the only formal denial, because chiefs had been putting the brakes on non-fire requests since the state Attorney General’s Office issued an opinion criticizing application of the law for the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle. The only other non-fire mobilization was for a motorcycle rally in Eastern Washington in 2005.

After the mudslide, Andrews and Oso Fire Chief Willy Harper made the request for statewide resources, even though they expected it would be denied. They knew their

decisions would come under scrutiny, Andrews said.

Pearson said his interest in the change grew from meeting with people in the Stillaguamish Valley.

“We want to make sure no one is hamstrung by our state laws or by a (legal) opinion,” he said.

Another voice pushing for change has been Dave LaFave, the chief of Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue based in Kelso. He was on the planning team that got the bill passed in the 1990s. It was never supposed to limit state resources to fighting wildfires, he said Monday.

It was about making sure “we weren’t hung up on

bureaucracy of how do we go help someone,” he said.

“It’s pretty straightforward,” LaFave said. “Our plan is one of the best plans in the nation for mobilizing fire-service resources. The issue is it should include all fire-service resources, not just equipment for wildfires.”

The mudslide took 43 lives, buried about 40 homes and wiped out a stretch of Highway 530.

This past weekend, survivors spent time in the peace grove planted at the site this summer, decorating the memorial trees with ornaments and garlands for Christmas.

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June 7, 1924-December 8, 2014

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Dec. 7, 1940-Dec. 10, 2014

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April 4, 1932-Dec. 7, 2014

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Nellie D. Fortier (Pat), 90 years old, of Sultan, Wash. passed away December 8, 2 014 o f h e a r t f a i l u r e i n Everett, Wash.

Nellie was born June 7, 1924 in Danville, Ark. where she lived until she was a young woman. She moved to California where she worked at Mare Island at the shipyard during WWII building ships for the war effort.

She met her husband, Clarence William Fortier (CW) and married December 26, 1 9 4 7. T h e y s h a r e d 6 0 happy years together. They have three girls; Kathy Marie Farrell, Vickie Michell Richardson, and Denise Rebecca Jefferson.

Nellie was a C.N.A. for over 30 years doing what she did best, caring for people. She loved it dearly. She also raised exotic birds and was known as the bird lady of S u l t a n . S h e d i d t h i s fo r many years and became very educated in the many dif ferent birds she raised and sold.

She loved traveling in their RV to see her family in Arkansas, taking extended trips every year.

Nellie is sur vived by her three daughters, Kathy Marie and her husband William E. Farrell (Ed), Vickie Richardson and Denise Jef ferson; granddaughter, Shawn Marie Redwood and her husband Curtis Redwood; grandsons, Tommy Richardson, Mindy Richardson, Jason Richardson, and John Richardson; granddaughter, Alesia Jefferson; grandsons, Chad Jef ferson, Nathaniel Jef ferson, and Kenny Dye; great grandchildren, Serenity Jefferson, Xavier William Lee J e f fe r s o n , C h ev i D ay to n a Marie Jefferson.

Nellie was the oldest of seven children; Louise Daisy Madden, deceased, s i s te r, L e o n i a Wa i te , deceased, twin brother to Leonia, Leo Coffman, deceased. Living, Billie Dewain Willis, William Oscar (WO) Cof fman, deceased, living, Retha Inez Howell, all of Arkansas; many nieces and nephews, grand nieces a n d n e p h ew s , a s we l l a s great grand nieces and nephews.

If you ever met mama you w o u l d n o t fo r g e t h e r.

E v e r y o n e r e s p e c t e d h e r, thought she was the sweetest person they have ever met. She will be greatly missed. We love you mom.

Viewing will be 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at Bauer Funeral Chapel, 701 1st St., Snohomish, WA 98290.

Funeral services will be held T h u r s d ay, D e c e m b e r 1 8 , 2014 at 11 a.m. at Bauer Fu n e r a l C h a p e l . B u r i a l following at the Sultan Cemetery. A celebration of her life to be announced following the funeral.

Tom Taylor passed away December 10, 2014.

H e g r a d u a t e d f r o m Northwestern University and was honorably discharged from the US Navy.

He is survived by ex-wife, S u s a n Ta y l o r ; d a u g h t e r, Mary Taylor (Tony); son, Jeff Ta y l o r ( K r i s t i n e ) ; a n d granddaughters, Jennifer, Jessika (Jacob) and Cecelia.

His family is greatly saddened and he will be dearly missed.

Fu n e r a l s e r v i c e s 10 : 3 0 a.m. December 20, 2014 B e c k s Fu n e r a l H o m e i n Edmonds.

Leona M. Yandle, born in Sultan, Wash. April 4, 1932, passed away December 7, 2014 at home in Arlington.

Lee enjoyed hunting, camping, putt-putt golf, clam digging, black berry picking, her flower gardens and babysitting all the young kids.

She would have you laughing with her “one-liners”, greeting you at her door with open arms, and packing her home with loved ones until it was “standing room only.”

Lee was preceded in death by siblings: John Delany, Iris Sletten, and Marge Meeker.

She is sur vived by her s i s t e r s , L o u i s e H a m m e r, Diana Pasco, Joanne Sheehan, and Louella P r e a e g e r. S h e i s a l s o survived by her son, Marvin Michael Yandle and his wife Lisa; grandchildren, Diedra M a t y s , C h r i s t i n e Ya n d l e , Jonathan Yandle, Michelle Turner, and Lorie Wellman, and eight greatgrandchildren.

Lee held a special place in her heart for Art Unruh (her “King Arthur”) and his children, Mary (Dennis) Thorton, Jerry (Sue) Unruh, and Art (Mary) Unruh, Jr. She became “bestest” friends with the purchase of a used car from Neil Knutson and his wife, Charlotte, and her “bestest” little boys, Nelson Knutson and Nolan Knutson.

Services will take place at Weller Funeral Home, 327 N. MacLeod Ave., Arlington, Wash. A viewing will be held on Thursday, December 18, 2014 from 1-5 p.m. and a memorial service will take place on Friday, December 19, 2014 at 11 a.m. with a r e c e p t i o n a n d g r av e s i d e service following.

Lee is thankful to all that h e l p e d m a ke h e r s u n s e t comfor table including her f r i e n d s , H o l l ey, S a u n d r a , Mary, and her King Arthur.

Stan Todd Sicade Sr., 47 o f Tu l a l i p p a s s e d a w a y December 12, 2014.

He was born August 30, 1967 to Henry “Hank” and R o s e S i c a d e i n Ta c o m a , Washington. He was raised in Tacoma but also lived in Puyallup, Muckleshoot/ Auburn, Squaxin Island and Tulalip.

He is survived by his wife, Stella Sicade; children, Dianndra Sicade, Brian Sicade, Sandra Sicade, Buddy L. Sicade, Lluan Sicade, Stanton Sicade Jr., Nyah Sicade; siblings, Fr e d r i c k S i c a d e S r. , a n d Susan Jones; mother, Rose Sicade; grandchildren, Aaliyah McLean, Cassidy Brown, and Alyssa SatiacumHamilton; aunts, uncles, and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his dad, Henr y “Hank” S i cade; hi s grandparents and numerous, aunties, uncles and cousins.

Visitation will be held Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Schaefer-Shipman with Shaker service to follow at 6 : 0 0 p . m . a t t h e Tu l a l i p 1910 Shaker Church.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, at 9:00 a.m. at the Tulalip Gym with burial to follow at Mission Beach Cemetery.

Bill went home to the Lord on December 9, 2014. He was deeply loved and will be missed.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years (January 2015), Ginni; sons, Bill (Elizabeth) and Scott (Michele); grandchildren, Kim, Aaron, To n y ( D a n a ) a n d S a r a h (Jeremy); and four greatgrandchildren.

A service to celebrate Bill’s life will be held on January 17, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 1616 Pacific Ave, Everett, wash.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Puget Sound Kidney Centers, 1005 Pacific Ave, Everett, WA 98201.

The family wishes to express their sincere gratitude to both the staff of the Kidney Center and Providence Hospital for their wonderful care and support.

Larry W. West L a r r y W . W e s t , 76 , o f Stanwood, Wash. died December 10, 2014. Larry was born to Mary and Wilbur on April 25, 1938 in Leroy Township, Miss.

L a r r y r e c e i v e d h i s p h a r m a c i s t l i c e n s e f ro m Ferris State University. After he moved the family to Wa s h i n g t o n S t a t e , L a r r y worked at Todd and Marco shipyards and then for the Everett School District working nearly 20 years as the head custodian for Silver Lake Elementary.

Larr y is sur vived by a brother and sister; six children (three adopted); fourteen grandchildren; and one great grandchild.

Flowers and cards can be sent to 8002 283rd St. NW, Stanwood, WA 98292.

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Monte Dale Pratt Monte Dale Pratt, 58, of Everett passed away on December 11, 2014.

At his request no services will be held.

Carol Elizabeth Fish Dec. 24, 1923-Dec. 3, 2014

Mass will be held Thursday, December 18, 2014, 1 p.m. at St. John Mission, 829 3rd Street, Mukilteo.

Reception to follow.

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County Executive John Lovick to review the disaster and the emergency response and to identify ways to improve public safety. The group of about a dozen experts began meeting in August.

“It wasn’t just a commission going through a bunch of policies and coming up with recommendations,” said commissioner Bill Trimm, a land-use consultant and former Mill Creek community development director. “We really tried to understand the heartbreak and the human conditions.

It was very humbling for me, personally.”

The final report made 17 recommendations. It’s up to the governor and the Legislature to act on them.

Trimm is confident change will materialize.

“None of the people on the commission wanted to spend the time and energy and have this report sit on the shelf,” he said. “There are some specific actions in the document that we want to pursue immediately.”

The wait might not be long.

Inslee on Monday said that his transportation package includes $36 million for landslide mitigation, mapping and analysis. He planned to share details Tuesday.

That’s in line with the commission’s recommendation to accelerate the mapping of landslide hazards with LiDAR, a remote-sensing technology that uses lasers to make high-resolution landscape images. Experts can use the information to identify past landslides and areas where risks of future events are highest.

Only a few areas of the state have been mapped using the technology, and none of the charts are as detailed as experts recommend.

Commissioners suggested prioritizing mapping in several areas: the Seattle-Everett rail corridor, the I-5 corridor, mountain highways, urban areas and state forests.

Meanwhile, changing the fire mobilization law is on the short list of legislative priorities for local chiefs, the Washington Fire Chiefs group and the state fire commissioners group, said Eric Andrews.

The Gold Bar fire chief and Clearview deputy fire chief is in charge of requesting mobilization for this part of Washington.

The topic has come up at every Snohomish County fire chiefs meeting since the slide, Andrews said. The wildfire mobilization process works so well, in part because the state pays the costs so small departments aren’t left with massive bills for regional events.

The bills for the mudslide still are being worked out between local agencies and businesses, the county, the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Questions about how to pay for non-wildfire disasters have stumped the Legislature, including this past session.

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Murthy confirmed as surgeon general Other Obama nominees in position after Cruz’s maneuver backfires

By Lisa Mascaro Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama’s controversial choice for surgeon general Monday, a victory for the administration after GOP infighting gave Democrats the upper hand in the final stretch of the lameduck Congress.

The 51-43 vote followed a drama-filled weekend session in which Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, forced senators to cancel plans and file into work as he tried to use a government funding bill as leverage to stop the president’s immigration policy.

But the strategy backfired: Not only did Congress clear the $1.1 trillion spending bill without restrictions on immigration policy, but Democrats used the rare Saturday session to speed up the confirmation process for nearly two dozen nominations that would have otherwise languished.

Vivek Murthy, the Harvardand Yale-educated internist who is Obama’s choice for surgeon general, faced stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association over his support for stricter gun control laws.

But his confirmation, coming almost two years to the day after the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, talks with reporters Saturday after the Senate voted on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government. Cruz tried to restrict the president’s immigration policy but failed.

shooting, allowed Democrats to wrap up their majority control of the Senate with a victory.

The Senate this week expects to clear more than 20 other nominees that had been bogged down in a political morass. The list includes some lifetime judicial appointments, bolstering Obama’s stamp on the courts.

The NRA on Monday reiterated its opposition to Murthy, whom it criticized for supporting a federal ban on sales of semiautomatic firearms.

“The NRA’s position hasn’t changed,” said spokesman Andrew Arulanandam.

Supporters have defended Murthy, saying that his views are not extreme and that most Americans support tougher gun control laws. They also argued that the nation needs a surgeon general at the forefront of the nation’s public health team, noting the recent Ebola crisis.

“We need a surgeon general right now,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a leading advocate of gun restrictions.

“Let’s agree to agree that Dr. Murthy is right — that gun violence is a problem that this country should be addressing, no matter what your view on how we get there. That’s

something we all should be able to unite around.”

The Senate on Monday also was set to advance Obama’s choice of Sarah Saldana to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, over the objections of conservative Republicans protesting the president’s plan to defer deportations for up to 5 million immigrants here illegally.

Saldana and another nominee, Antony Blinken, tapped as deputy secretary of state, are expected to be confirmed Tuesday.

The current session of Congress has just days remaining; the House has already finished its work and left for the holidays.

Republicans are using procedural tools to slow down the confirmation process, forcing the Senate to stay at work.

The Senate still hopes to give final passage later this week to a package of specialty tax breaks, including for the film industry, Puerto Rican rum producers and teachers who buy their own school supplies.

The measure has already cleared the House.

Congress, however, remains divided over an extension of the terrorism risk insurance program, which will expire Dec. 31 if no agreement is reached.

3 die, including gunman, in Sydney seige

By Kristen Gelineau Associated Press

SYDNEY — The deadly siege began in the most incongruous of ways, on a sunny Monday morning inside a cheerful cafe in the heart of Australia’s largest city. An Iranian-born gunman burst in, took 17 people hostage, and forced some to hold a flag with an Islamic declaration of faith above the shop window’s festive inscription of “Merry Christmas.”

Man Haron It ended Monis in 2011 after midnight with a barrage of gunfire that left two hostages and the gunman dead, four others wounded, and a nation that has long prided itself on its peace rocked to its core.

After waiting 16 hours, police stormed the Lindt Chocolat Cafe early Tuesday when they heard gunfire inside, said New South Wales state police Commissioner Andrew Scipione.

A loud bang rang out, several hostages ran from the building and police swooped in amid heavy gunfire, shouts and flashes. A police bomb disposal robot also was sent into the building, but no explosives were found.

“They made the call because they believed that at that time, if they didn’t enter, there would have been many more lives lost,” Scipione said.

The gunman was identified as Man Haron Monis, 50, who once was prosecuted for sending offensive letters to families of Australian troops killed in Afghanistan.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monis had “a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability.”

Scipione wouldn’t say whether the two hostages who were killed — a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman — were caught in crossfire, or shot by their captor. Among the four wounded was a police officer shot in the face.

One of the victims was Sydney lawyer and mother-ofthree, Katrina Dawson.

The other victim was identified in Australian media as the manager of the cafe, Tori Johnson.

Officials rolled one gurney out of the cafe carrying what

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Court: Traffic stop OK despite mistake WASHINGTON — Police can use evidence seized during a traffic stop even if it turns out officers pulled a car over based on a misunderstanding of the law, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The 8-1 decision said that such a stop does not violate the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches.

The ruling came in a North Carolina case in which a police officer pulled over Nicholas Heien’s car because the right brake light was out. The left one still worked. A consensual search led to the discovery of cocaine in the trunk.

A state appeals court said the stop was impermissible because state law only requires a car to have one functioning brake light. But the state’s highest court reversed, finding that the officer’s mistaken reading of the law was reasonable. The Supreme Court agreed.

Calif.: Rare rhino dies A northern white rhinoceros that was only one of six left in the world died Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, zoo officials said. Angalifu, who was about 44 years old, apparently died of old age. His death leaves only one northern white rhino at the San Diego zoo — a female named Nola — one at a zoo in the Czech Republic and three in a preserve in Kenya. Attempts to mate Angalifu with Nola weren’t successful.

Nev.: Guard kills passenger Authorities say a wounded security guard shot back and killed a public transit passenger who opened fire when he was kicked off a bus on the Las Vegas Strip. Police said the shooting happened a little before 2 a.m. Monday.

Investigators said a security officer told a passenger to get off the bus because of a disturbance. Police said the man then pulled a handgun and shot the guard. The officer fired back, killing the man. The guard is hospitalized in stable condition.

Pa.: 6 dead, suspect at large A man suspected of going to three houses in the Philadelphia suburbs and fatally shooting six people, including his ex-wife, was at large, and prosecutors said investigators didn’t know where he was or how he was getting around.

Police recovered the cellphone and car of Bradley William Stone, who had been fighting his ex-wife over custody of their two children. SWAT teams surrounded his Pennsburg home Monday but authorities said it was unclear if he was there.

Conn.: Newtown families sue rifle manufacturer

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A hostage runs to armed tactical response police officers after she escaped from a cafe under siege in the central business district of Sydney on Monday.

appeared to be a man draped in a blood-soaked sheet with a bloody handprint in the center. Paramedics carried away a woman with blood-covered feet.

While Monis’ motivation for the attack was still unclear, Abbott confirmed he was “well-known” to state and federal authorities.

Last year, he was convicted and sentenced to 300 hours of community service for using the postal service to send what a judge called “grossly offensive” letters to families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2009.

At the time, Monis said his letters were “flowers of advice,” adding: “Always, I stand behind my beliefs.”

Monis later was charged with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. Earlier this year, he was charged with the sexual assault of a woman in 2002. He has been out on bail on the charges.

“He had a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability,” Abbott said. “As the siege unfolded yesterday, he sought to cloak his actions with the symbolism of the ISIL death cult. Tragically, there are people in our community ready to engage in politically motivated violence.” ISIL also is known as

the Islamic State group, which has threatened Australia in the past.

Flags were lowered to halfstaff on the landmark Harbour Bridge The state’s premier, Mike Baird, expressed disbelief that the attack could happen in Australia — a place he dubbed “a peaceful, harmonious society which is the envy of the world.”

The siege began about 9:45 a.m. in Martin Place, a plaza in Sydney’s financial and shopping district that was packed with holiday shoppers.

Throughout the day, several hostages were seen with their arms in the air and hands pressed against the window of the cafe, with two people holding up a black flag with the Shahada, or Islamic declaration of faith, written on it.

Channel 10 news said it received a video in which a hostage in the cafe had relayed the gunman’s demands. The station said police requested they not broadcast it, and Scipione separately asked media that might be contacted by the gunman to urge him instead to talk to police.

Australian Muslim groups condemned the hostage-taking in a statement and said the flag’s inscription was a “testimony of faith that has been misappropriated by

misguided individuals.”

Seven Network television news staff watched the gunman and hostages for hours from a fourth floor window of their offices, opposite the cafe.

The gunman could be seen pacing past the cafe’s windows.

Reporter Chris Reason said the man carried what appeared to be a pump-action shotgun.

“The gunman seems to be sort of rotating these people through these positions on the windows with their hands and faces up against the glass,” Reason said in a report. “One woman we’ve counted was there for at least two hours — an extraordinary, agonizing time for her, surely, having to stand on her feet for that long.”

“When we saw that rush of escapees, we could see from up here in this vantage point the gunman got extremely agitated as he realized those five had got out. He started screaming orders at the people, the hostages who remain behind,” he added.

As night set in, the lights inside the cafe were switched off. Police fitted their helmets with night goggles.

The Swiss company Lindt & Sprugli issued a statement saying it was “profoundly saddened and deeply affected about the death of innocent people.”

The families of nine people killed in the Newtown school massacre filed a lawsuit against the maker and sellers of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the shooting, saying the gun should not have been sold for civilian use because of its overwhelming firepower. The lawsuit alleging wrongful death and negligence was filed Monday — the day after the second anniversary of the shooting, which left 20 children and six educators dead. The defendants include Camfour, a firearm distributor,

AROUND THE WORLD Ukraine: NATO aid sought Ukraine’s prime minister Monday asked NATO to do more to help his country’s military, which has been unable to quell a pro-Russian insurgency, and called for an urgent increase in financial aid from the European Union. “It’s difficult for us to fight with a nuclear state that is armed to the teeth,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk said. He accused Vladimir Putin’s Russia of seeking to eradicate an independent Ukraine.

N. Korea: Meeting on CIA torture sought at U.N. North Korea asked the U.N. Security Council in a letter Monday to take up the CIA’s harsh treatment of terror suspects, instead of the North’s own human rights situation. North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Ja Song Nam objected to the inclusion of his country’s human rights record on the Security Council’s agenda for debate — the first step toward a possible referral to the International Criminal Court. It is highly unlikely that the CIA issue will ever make it onto the agenda of the council, where the U.S. has veto power.

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Boeing tanker awaits first test flight

By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer

EVERETT — Boeing workers and engineers are hustling to get the first test plane of the company’s aerial-refueling tanker program in the air later this month.

The aerospace company’s current goal — Dec. 27 or 28 — is six months later than Boeing had

initially planned for the KC-46 tanker program. It can’t afford many more delays if the company is going to deliver the first batch of tankers to the U.S. Air Force on time, according to the general overseeing the program for the Air Force.

Boeing is responsible for an estimated $1.5 billion in development cost overruns, according to a cost-and-risk assessment

completed by the Air Force in November, Brig. Gen. Duke Richardson said during a conference call with reporters.

That is about $441 million more than the military’s previous estimate, he said.

Developing the tanker, which is based on Boeing’s 767-200ER commercial jetliner, is expected to cost $6.4 billion. Boeing is working under a $4.4 billion

development contract, and the Pentagon is to decide in September 2015 whether to proceed with production. The development contract is fixed-price, so the federal government’s costs are capped at $4.9 billion.

Boeing continues “to aggressively work plans to drive productivity, mitigate risks and See TANKER, Page A8

Oil sends stocks tumbling

By Bernard Condon Associated Press

NEW YORK — Falling oil prices pushed U.S. stocks down broadly on Monday, extending losses into a second week.

European stocks also fell, and the Russian ruble plunged to a record low against the dollar as the continuing collapse in the price of oil reverberated through global financial markets.

A brief rally after trading opened in the U.S. vanished as crude oil continued a sixmonth slide that has slashed its price nearly in half. Global demand for oil has been waning just as supplies are becoming more abundant.

The stock losses in the U.S. were modest, but markets in Germany and France fell more than 2 percent. The Russian ruble plunged, sending stocks sharply lower there, too.

After U.S. markets closed, Russia’s central bank dramatically raised its key interest rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent in an effort to stop the ruble from dropping further.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 12.70 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,989.63. All 10 industry sectors in the index dropped. The losses followed a 3.5 percent drop in the S&P 500 last week, its biggest decline since May 2012.

“People are taking profits, and it can go on for a while,” said Uri Landesman, president of Platinum Partners, an investment fund in New York. “You’re seeing a See STOCKS, Page A8

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Cho Hyun-ah, who was head of cabin service at Korean Air Lines and the oldest child of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho, speaks to the media Friday in Seoul, South Korea. Cho Yang-ho apologized Friday for the behavior of his adult daughter who delayed a flight in an incident now dubbed “nut rage.”

‘Nut rage’ sends macadamia sales skyrocketing in Korea

By Youkyung Lee Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — Nut rage imploded the career of a Korean Air Lines executive and embarrassed her family and country. Now South Korean retailers are experiencing the unexpected upside: a boom in sales of macadamias.

The flavorful macadamia nut was unfamiliar to many South Koreans until Cho Hyun-ah, the daughter of Korean Air’s chairman, ordered a flight attendant off a Dec. 5 flight from New York City after she was served them in a bag, instead of on a plate.

She resigned from executive roles including head of cabin service last week amid a storm of

criticism about the tantrum that forced the flight to return to the gate. But macadamias are now a household name in South Korea and with curiosity about their taste piqued, sales are booming.

Auction, a South Korean unit of eBay and South Korea’s secondlargest e-commerce website, said Monday that sales of macadamias surged nearly 12-fold during the previous five days without any promotions. It said macadamias previously made up 5 percent of its nut sales but were now accounting for almost half.

South Korea’s largest online shopping retailer, Gmarket, also owned by eBay, said macadamia nut sales jumped 20 times during the six days up to Sunday compared with the previous week.

By Seth Borenstein Associated Press

biz bits

Swedish names interim CEO for Edmonds Swedish Health Services on Monday named Jennifer Graves, chief executive officer of Swedish Ballard, as the interim CEO of Swedish Edmonds. Graves will begin work in her new role on Jan. 1, with the retirement of CEO David Jaffe.

Graves will continue to serve as CEO of Swedish Ballard, where she has spent more than five years leading work to revitalize the campus through quality, safety, operational and facility improvements.

Prior to her tenure at Swedish, she served on the leadership team at Virginia Mason Medical Center. Graves has been a professor in the nursing programs at Seattle Pacific University and Northwest University.

Sony threatens suit over stolen emails

The website of e-commerce firm Coupang showed Mauna Loa macadamia nuts had sold out, with about 100 users asking on the comments section for the product to be quickly restocked.

One Coupang user asked if Mauna Loa macadamia nuts are the same brand that delayed the Korean Air flight.

Another person who identified themselves as a seller replied that they probably are because orders have shot up.

Cho’s over-mighty behavior hogged headlines around the world and spawned various parodies on the Internet.

Cho made a publicly apology last week. Her father also publicly apologized and said he should have raised her better.

Study: Hotter days mean less cold cash WASHINGTON — Hotter days mean less cold cash for Americans, according to a new study matching 40 years of temperatures to economics.

Days that averaged about 77 degrees ended up reducing people’s income by about $5 a day when compared with days that were about 20 degrees cooler. A county’s average economic productivity decreases by nearly 1 percent for every degree Fahrenheit that the average daily temperature is above 59, says a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper released Monday.

And, the study’s authors predict, if the world continues on its current path of greenhouse gas emissions, even warmer

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A roofer works under the midday sun July 25 in Gilbert, Arizona.

temperatures later this century will squeeze the U.S. economy by tens of billions of dollars each year.

This is not from storms,

Kudos Bothell’s Foggy Noggin Brewing has received five awards in the 2014 Northwest Brewing News Readers Choice Awards. They include: Best Nano Brewery in Washington; Best Brown Ale — Butch’s Brew; Best Cream Ale — Foggy Noggin Cream Ale; Best Fruit

drought or other weather disasters — just the sweat of daily heat.

The paper by a pair of economists at the University of Illinois and University of California,

Beer — Cranberry Frost; and Best Pale Ale — Diablo del Sol. Also, Foggy Noggin is collecting food and cash for Northwest Harvest with its FogNogger Harvest. Foggy Noggin is accepting donations each Saturday until New Year’s Day. The Washington Associa-

tion of Conservation Districts has named Camano Island’s Kristoferson Farm the 2014 Wildlife Farmer of the Year for Washington.

The family-owned farm, known for its zip line tour, has made significant efforts to protect and maintain its 231-acre wildlife habitat.

The farm grows certified

Berkeley, has not yet been peerreviewed but is part of work done for the nonpartisan economics research center that is widely cited for determining when the country is in and out of recessions. In comments from other researchers, the new study was criticized for its methods and conclusions by some economists and policy experts but praised by others as ground-breaking.

The study tries to find common ground between the hard physical science of meteorology and the softer science of economics. In doing so, the researchers used new complex statistical techniques crunching more than 76,000 data points, including daily temperatures and yearly economic data in counties across America, said co-author Solomon See HEAT, Page A8

organic hay and lavender and operates a sustainable timber business.

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We post the complete list online every Monday at HeraldNet. com/bizblog.

A lawyer representing Sony Pictures Entertainment is warning news organizations not to publish details of company files leaked by hackers in one of the largest digital breaches ever against an American company. The Sony materials include studio financial records, employment files and salacious gossip by Hollywood executives about President Barack Obama and some of the industry’s big stars and upcoming films. Attorney David Boies demanded Sunday that Sony’s “stolen information” — publicly available on the Internet by the gigabytes — contains privileged, private information.

PetSmart to be sold PetSmart Inc., the largest pet-store chain in the United States, agreed to be bought by a group led by BC Partners for about $8.3 billion in the biggest leveraged deal for a U.S. company this year. The group will pay $83 a share, according to a statement. Including debt, the total value of the deal is about $8.7 billion.

Oyster herpes threatens industry Herpes has devastated 26 percent of France’s oyster production since the summer of 2008. In Australia, the virus killed 10 million oysters in three days. Researchers suspect climate change risks compounding the losses. The $4.1 billion global industry is grappling with a herpes virus that can have a 100 percent mortality rate. Ostreid herpesvirus-1, also known as Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome, can kill most of a farm’s stock of young shellfish in a day and also has been linked to oyster deaths in New Zealand.

Some coins losers Despite lower production expenses, pennies and nickels still cost more to make than their face value — and that added up to a loss of $90.5 million to taxpayers this year, according to the Treasury Department. A penny cost the U.S. Mint 1.7 cents to produce in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The price of making a nickel is 8.1 cents.

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Amazon . . 306.07 -1.25 Boeing . . . 122.08 1.31 Costco . . . . 138.19 0.31 Crane . . . . . 53.64 -0.51 FrontierCom . 6.30 0.04 HeritageFin 16.98 -0.06 Microsoft . . 46.67 -0.28 Nordstrom . 75.43 0.78 Starbucks . . 80.89 -2.36 WshFederal 21.65 -0.27 Zumiez . . . . 36.66 -0.05 Market report, A8

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THE DAY ON WALL STREET Falling oil prices pushed U.S. stocks down broadly Monday, extending losses into a second week. All 10 industry sectors in the Standard and Poor’s 500 dropped. The losses followed a 3.5 percent decline in the index last week, its biggest loss since May 2012.

On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 99.99 points, or 0.6 percent, to 17,180.84 The Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 12.70 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,989.63.

The Nasdaq composite lost 48.44 points, or 1 percent, to 4,605.16.

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Stronger start seen for Obama’s health law this year

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Signup season for President Barack Obama’s health care law is off to a stronger start this year, even as Americans remain skeptical that the government’s newest social program is right for the country.

As one major enrollment deadline passed Monday, other second-year

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Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley.

The numbers were clear, the researchers said.

“Hot temperatures are very bad for the economy,” said study co-author Tatyana Deryugina, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois.

This has been seen in other studies in hotter, less-developed areas such as India. But scientists and economists often assumed

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lower our costs,” company spokesman Chick Ramey said.

The Air Force plans to buy 179 KC-46s by 2027 in the first of a three-phase overhaul of an aging tanker fleet.

Those 179 planes will be worth an estimated $51 billion.

The first flight will be by a 767-2C, the tanker’s

milestones quickly approached. The administration seems well on the way to its goal of 9.1 million customers enrolled for private coverage through government-sponsored online markets. But it’s not there yet.

Public attitudes toward Obama’s signature law are only slightly less chilly than before the congressional midterm elections that saw Republicans, still clamoring for its repeal, win both

chambers of Congress.

An Associated PressGfK poll earlier this month found an uptick for the Affordable Care Act, with 29 percent saying they support it, compared with 25 percent in October. Opposition to “Obamacare” was stable at 41 percent, while the rest were on the fence.

In nearly every state, Monday was the deadline for new customers to pick a health plan to take effect Jan. 1, and for current

enrollees to make changes that could reduce premium increases before the new year. Open enrollment season doesn’t end until Feb. 15, for coverage that takes effect March 1. Current customers can still make plan changes through that date.

Based on early numbers from the administration, it’s looking like the majority of the 6.7 million current customers have opted to stay in their current plans

and be automatically renewed Jan. 1. Making sure that happens as smoothly as it’s been advertised is the administration’s next major challenge.

As Monday’s deadline for Jan. 1 coverage approached, HealthCare. gov and state health insurance websites saw a jump in traffic. Wait times at the federal call center stretched to 20 minutes and longer.

The federal government is running the insurance

markets in 37 states. Also known as exchanges, the markets offer subsidized private plans to people who don’t have coverage on the job.

Consumers have different motivations for signing up. Enrollment counselors say they are starting to see more people worried about incurring fines for remaining uninsured. The fines are going up substantially in 2015, to a minimum of $325, from $95 this year.

it wouldn’t be the case for richer countries with air conditioning, like the United States, said Hsiang, who teaches public policy.

But America’s economy doesn’t adapt as experts thought, said Hsiang, who examined all U.S. counties’ daily temperature and yearly economic data going back to 1970.

Hsiang said the “sweet spot” where productivity is maximized — a daily average temperature between 54 and 59 degrees — at first seemed cooler than expected, but that’s an average 24-hour temperature. Daily highs can be 11

degrees warmer and lows 11 degrees cooler. So these are days when the afternoon is around 70.

While most people work indoors in climate-controlled settings they still go outside a lot, and hot weather elevates body temperature for a while, affecting how people work, Hsiang said.

“These are little things that add up,” Hsiang said.

“It’s not like a hurricane. ...

This is more like a story of deaths by a thousand cuts.”

Carnegie Institute scientist Chris Field, who heads a United Nations climate change science panel that

looks at the effects of global warming, praised the study as “creative and powerful.”

“It may take some time for the community to reflect on the methods to decide if they are as effective as they seem, but my first impression is that this study provides unique insights into the big-picture consequences of temperature variation for income,” Field said.

University of Sussex economist Richard Tol criticized the study, saying that people tend to work harder and make up productivity losses in following days.

He said not taking this into

account makes the authors overestimate the heat effects.

But if the losses were made up within days, the way the economic data is annualized, the study authors wouldn’t have noticed any difference because they would have equaled out, Hsiang said.

Further, he said, more analysis showed that there was a “make up” effect but it was in the year after a hot year and only accounted for half the losses.

John Sterman, a management professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and John

Reilly, an energy economist who heads MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, both said the paper’s analysis made sense to them. Reilly said other economists will want to test and evaluate the data themselves.

The study uses 44 climate computer simulations to project temperatures near the end of the century rising by about 9 degrees on average. That, it says, will reduce the nation’s economic growth by 0.12 percentage points a year.

Reilly said that’s trillions of dollars over a century.

non-military test platform, which is on the Boeing flight line at Paine Field. Boeing had initially planned test flights this past summer, but problems with wiring bundles in the first test plane created about a six-month delay.

The first actual military KC-46 is expected to fly in the second half of April, Richardson said.

Boeing and the Air Force are focused on completing testing to get necessary certifications from the Federal Aviation

Administration, he said.

Enough of the redesign and reinstallation has been finished to get the civilian test plane in the air Dec. 27 or 28, Richardson said, and more than half of the work has been done on the first KC-46 airplane.

Richardson said he is “pretty confident” that test flights will start before the end of the month and that there won’t be major delays going forward.

“We’ve burned through a lot of risk” on the test plane.

The company is already

working to address identified software issues that won’t likely affect the first flight, he said.

Boeing is expected to send a revised development-and-production schedule to the Air Force in February.

“I think they’ve been very transparent,” Richardson said of Boeing.

So far, the delays have only affected internal deadlines.

The company’s first contractual deadline is August 2017, by which it has to deliver the first 18 tankers.

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mini-correction.”

A solid report on U.S. manufacturers and some merger news helped jolt markets higher after the open, but the gains evaporated after an hour as crude prices fell. The oil slump is worrying investors because it hammers the profits of drillers and other oil companies that are big components in

stock indexes. Investors also fear it may signal the global economic slowdown is deeper than expected.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 99.99 points, or 0.6 percent, to 17,180.84.

The Nasdaq composite lost 48.44 points, or 1 percent, to 4,605.16.

The ruble sank 13 percent to 65.83 to the dollar.

Several commentators have noted that plunging oil prices could eventually help U.S. stocks because it pushes down gas prices, freeing up money for Americans to spend.

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IN OUR VIEW | Equal Access Act

Give vets access to cannabis Government agencies and legislative bodies, which usually move at a slug-like pace, can act quickly, especially if no one is particularly seeking the change. The Department of Justice announced last week that Indian tribes can grow and sell marijuana on their lands as long as they follow the same federal conditions laid out for states that have legalized the drug, the Associated Press reported.

Never mind that many tribes oppose legalization and only a few have expressed interest in the marijuana industry. But the choice is there, just in case.

(Which is a good thing.)

In contrast, for several years now, veterans, advocacy and medical groups have petitioned the federal government to reclassify marijuana as a drug with medical benefits, from its current Schedule 1,

which means marijuana is not recognized as having any medical benefit. A reclassification would allow doctors to recommend it, veterans to use it and researchers to legally study it.

The schedule change can come from the president, the attorney general, the DEA or Congress. As it happens, a bill introduced in Congress in November sidesteps the classification dilemma altogether, RT.com reported. The Veterans Equal Access Act — introduced with bipartisan support — would remove a ban on Veterans Administration doctors giving opinions or recommendations on medical marijuana to veterans who live in states where it is legal.

It’s not an ideal bill, since all veterans should be able to take advantage of such a change, (as well as active

duty personnel) regardless of where they live, but it is a start.

More and more veterans are calling for access, according to the Washington Post.

Veterans report that cannabis is effective for conditions related to military service — from chronic back pain and neuropathic issues to panic attacks and insomnia — and often preferable to widely prescribed opioid painkillers and other drugs.

Extremely preferable, in fact, to addiction and overdose, whether by accident or suicide. The opioid epidemic that is so prevalent in society is even worse in the military, whose members are prescribed narcotic painkillers three times as often as civilians, public radio station KPLU (94.9 FM) reported.

The prescriptions often make problems worse.

In 2012, researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center published a paper showing that VA doctors prescribed significantly more opiates to patients with PTSD and depression than to other veterans — even though people suffering from those conditions are most at risk of overdose and suicide. Scientific studies have demonstrated the benefits of cannabis for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, some of whom were on the brink of suicide, making the option a godsend.

In the absolute best interests of our veterans, Congress needs to pass the Veterans Equal Access bill, and in the interest of science and reality, go ahead and change Schedule 1 classification of cannabis as well.

■■PHONES AND DRIVING

office) duty to be discreet and yes, not be involved or biased in any way! John Koster is what I would describe as a “political animal” in that he favors a party and certain legislation, which is his right. However, as ombudsman, I believe this is not the correct way to approach the duties of the office. I would not want to see a Democratic “political animal” either.

A good idea is for the ombudsman to be “politically boring.” The ombudsman has to be impartial and, in this case, signing or letter heading an anti-union statement does not support that even if done on his own time with his own letterhead. Imagine reading how “unions are the problem and have taken from its workers,” then telling some people who came to him, and may be members of a union, to “come in and tell me how I can help you.” That is just as bad as a Democrat saying, “conservatives are idiots, now how can I help you,” to a group of people who may be conservative in beliefs and principles.

While ombudsman are not judges, in the judicial sense, their responsibilities and need for discretion outweigh their right to talk or join causes or groups, lest they begin to lose that impartiality. We would not enjoy reading about any commentaries that court judges might discuss, we expect them to be truly impartial. If John Koster can’t stop being a “political animal” maybe he should resign, then he would be free to pursue all kinds of legislation that supports his idealogy. The ombudsman must be impartial or at some point the office will not be effective.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ■■SOUTH EVERETT

Residents already paid for sewer Regarding the article, “$320M fix prescribed for Everett’s aging sewers”: The city of Everett passed three sewer bonds in the 1960s and 1970s. These bonds were paid by the homeowners who lived in the Bond No. 1, Bond No. 2 and Bond No. 3 areas of south Everett over the 30-year life of the bonds.

These bond areas were located from around 41st Street to the south Everett city limits. Everett homeowners north of 41st Street never paid a penny for these sewer costs. Am I to assume that south Everett will subsidize the sewer work benefiting the homes in north Everett? If so, wouldn’t it be more equitable for all homeowners, if bond areas were established for the north Everett homeowners to pay for their upgrades as south Everett home owners did? Thirty years was a long time and a lot of money to pay, but we did it.

North Everett should do the same.

Myron Tollefson Everett

■■ LONGFELLOW BUILDING

Perfect site for senior housing In the Thursday Herald I read that the Everett School District voted to list the Colby Avenue property for sale, which was a district office for years. (“Everett district trying to sell, lease century-old Longfellow Building.”) The best part of this property is that it is 8 acres, on a bus line, close to town and medical facilities.

For years I have been driving by that property, pulling over and dreaming about how to put housing for seniors there. Small cottages or clusters of design-friendly homes that would fit nicely into the neighborhood, and help fill the demand for seniors who don’t need assisted living, but do want to scale down and shed the responsibility of home ownership.

Snohomish County has nearly 78,000 residents 65 years or older. That is more than 10 percent of the population of the county and growing. From January 2011, and every single day for 19 years after that, 10,000 baby boomers in our country will turn 65.

Have your say Feel strongly about something? Share it with the community by writing a letter to the editor.

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Send it to: E-mail: letters@heraldnet.com Mail: Letters section The The Daily Herald P.O. Box 930 Everett, WA 98206 Have a question about letters? Call Carol MacPherson at 425-339-3472.

Fix gaping holes in the state’s law

I was really shocked to read the article in The Herald about smart phones and driving. (“Lawmakers looking to toughen law against distracted driving.”) You can’t text but you can make stock trades. How stupid is this? So if you get stopped for texting just tell the cop you were making a trade?

The law should cover all activity on a cell phone while driving. No using a mobile device of any kind while driving. It’s so easy to get distracted from driving, even changing the radio station, to changing the temperature control. Make the law to cover it all and make the fines go up each time you are caught. Same with speeding tickets. Each time you are caught make it double from last time.

Chuck Heinitz Snohomish

We absolutely need to take action to provide housing for our senior population that we expect to explode in the next 20 years.

The 2020 City Vision Project projects that by 2020 we expect to have 60,000 more people in Everett. Did you know that Everett has more families without children than with children? And with a large population of seniors growing annually, I think this is the perfect opportunity to create housing for the 10 percent of them that would be candidates for senior housing.

I’ll put my name on the list to find a way to make it happen.

Anyone else?

Barb Lamoureux Everett

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Point of position is to be impartial I have read a number of letters regarding John Koster supporting an individual with his own letterhead about what may be seen as an anti-union proposition.

Here is something to think about. When John Koster was appointed ombudsman it was after his term on the Snohomish County Council had ended. His thoughts and opinions as a councilman were always known and expressed, as is required.

As ombudsman it is his (or any other candidate for that

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Give, but not to those who use coercive means

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’m paying up at this discount store, and the nice woman at the cash register asks me something like, “Do you want to support a program to help homeless teenagers get drug counseling?”

“Suppose I don’t” is the thought never uttered.

Instead, I say, “No, thank you” or, less forthrightly, “Not FROMA HARROP today.”

This happens at upscale stores, as well. The scenario is the same.

Your wallet is out; the cause sounds noble; and people behind you in line are listening in on your response.

Your choice is submit or feel heartless.

This is coercion, and the weapon is discomfort. One could try clarifying with “This sounds like a great program, but I already give elsewhere” or “I have never heard of this group and don’t know where the money would end up.”

But don’t bother with explanations.

Shoppers in line want you to quickly finish the transaction. And the cashier has zero interest in your views on charitable giving.

Such requests for donations come painfully close to panhandling. I know, I know. There are major differences. Street beggars are not serving others, and who knows what will be done with the money.

Unlike cashiers, panhandlers may also come off as threatening.

But the similarities are noteworthy. In both cases, the “ask” is face-to-face, purposely creating tension. Both push you to say “yes” or “no” publicly. And both use fear of embarrassment to win compliance.

Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will look at a law in Worcester, Massachusetts, that bans “aggressive begging” — defined as asking for handouts within 20 feet of a place where people are waiting in line. That could be a bus stop, a bank, a theater, a cafe. The law covers every form of begging, from noisy demands to sitting silently with a cup and sign.

A homeless couple have brought suit against the city. The American Civil Liberties Union contends that the pair are being denied their First Amendment right to free speech. But there are counter-arguments, and they’re more compelling.

A federal appeals court in Boston held that Worcester’s 20-foot no-begging zone is acceptable because panhandling can cause “serious apprehensiveness, real or apparent coercion, physical offense, or even danger.” Those words were written by former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, acting as a visiting appeals court judge.

Note that the Worcester law focuses on locations where people must line up.

Elsewhere, one can skirt around beggars.

In lines, you are captive. The cash register at a store is another instance of being stuck in place and thus unable to avoid a solicitation.

Other cities are trying to curb panhandling. Defenders of the practice routinely accuse those backing restrictions of being callous toward the less fortunate.

“Pure and simple,” one advocate for the homeless told The New York Times, “people don’t want to be reminded that there are poor and homeless people in America.”

It seems odd that the people being forcibly reminded are those who take public transportation. They have panhandlers in their faces, while motorists can zip unharassed out of town.

In reality, the advocates are doing the poor a disservice. The sadly destitute don’t go begging. Panhandlers tend to be assertive, and many are con artists. People who think they are helping the poor by handing money to street beggars are ignoring others in far greater need. Service organizations would better direct their contributions.

Some guidelines for charitable giving: Do write checks to good causes.

Solicitations at the checkout are your call.

(Frankly, I’d rather hand the dollars to the low-wage person behind the register.)

And don’t let street beggars work you over for money. Don’t be a sucker.

Froma Harrop’s email address is fharrop@gmail.com.

Such requests for donations come painfully close to panhandling.

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Helping the medicine go down Compound pharmacies cater to those who have trouble with medications DR. ELIZABETH SMOOTS

Sinus cavity infections are nothing to sneeze at

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our head contains several air spaces, or sinuses, located in the bones around your nose and eyes.

The sinus cavities make your skull weigh less and improve the sound of your voice. They also secrete mucous that helps warm and add moisture to the air you breathe. Hair cells called cilia continually sweep this mucous out of your sinuses through narrow openings into your nose.

But normal sinus function can change in a flash when you develop acute sinusitis.

What causes a sinus infection?

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Anything that blocks your sinus openings or keeps the cilia from beating can cause acute sinusitis.

A build-up of mucous and secretions provides a good place for bacteria to grow. Common causes of sinus infections include colds or viral upper respiratory infections, hay fever or allergies, or nasal irritants like air pollution or cigarette smoke. Nasal or dental procedures, traveling at high altitudes, or swimming underwater can also trigger sinusitis. So, too, can blockage from enlarged tonsils or adenoids, nasal polyps, deviated septum or cleft palate.

Hormone changes or immune disorders like diabetes or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome can contribute to the condition.

What are the symptoms of acute sinusitis?

A cold that improves and then gets worse may be a sign of a sinus infection. Pain on one side of your face or facial pain that occurs when you lean forward can also indicate acute sinusitis.

Other symptoms include a fever, thick green or yellow nasal secretions, or an ache in your upper teeth.

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Marjan Parsa, a certified pharmacy technician and compounding technician, weighs out doses for a topical gel made at Shiraz Pharmacy in Everett.

By Deanna Duff Special to The Herald

Dealing with medications can be a hard pill to swallow — both literally and figuratively. It’s challenging to contend with atypical doses, allergies or unusual ingredients. In a return to yesteryear, some people are seeking out compounding services at independent shops, such as Everett’s Shiraz Pharmacy.

“All local pharmacies compounded medications back in the day,” said Michelle Heue, Shiraz’s director of sales. “It changed with the advent of manufacturing so that medications became commercially available.”

Compound pharmacies mix and combine individual ingredients to customize prescriptions to the customer’s needs. An exact number is unknown, but the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) estimated in 2012 that 7,500 U.S. pharmacies offer advanced compounding services.

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has long regulated mass manufacturing of medications, prior to

A lactose base is prepared before going into gelatin capsules at Shiraz Pharmacy in Everett recently.

2014, individual states were the primary regulators for compounding pharmacies. In December 2013, the Drug Quality and Security Act was signed into law beefing up federal compounding regulations and imparting the FDA with more oversight to ensure safety.

Compound pharmacies, such as Shiraz, offer services that are unavailable at national chains and box-store pharmacies. The latter purchase medications

in set doses and patients are beholden to what’s available.

“Some people need an amount between two commercially-available doses. You find yourself trying to cut pills in half or quarters and aren’t exactly sure what you’re getting,” said Laura Fletcher, manager and pharmacist at Shiraz. “For some medications, such as thyroid, it’s really important to get a very accurate amount each time.”

Likewise, compounding is a

boon for many parents. When children require something typically prescribed to adults, it can be challenging to find readily-available, child-appropriate doses.

“It ends up with a stressed-out mom in the middle of the night trying to measure medications,” Fletcher said. “We do the prescription for the exact amount in a way that’s easy to understand.”

Compounding can also address some allergy and sensitivity issues. Ingredients such as preservatives can sometimes be eliminated or reduced since compounded medications often don’t require the shelf life of mass-produced versions.

Artificial coloring and flavoring can be omitted or substituted — trade mint for tutti frutti — either for health reasons or personal preferences. There are even gluten-free options in some cases.

“I started having a reaction to a prescription cream,” said Bonnie Grisim, longtime Shiraz customer. “The doctor asked for a list of the ingredients and tested all of them. It turned out I was allergic to the base cream, so the pharmacy changed it and See MEDS, Page B5

On Dasher, on Donner ... on your car?

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ure, Rudolph antlers are cute to wear on your head for silly photos or to top off an ugly Christmas sweater.

But what in blue blazes possesses people to turn their car into a 2-ton reindeer?

You’ve seen them tooling down the road. Cars with antlers shooting up from the windows and a bright red nose on the grill.

What’s up with that?

I chased down a few to find out.

“I’m a really bubbly, friendly person,” said Marcie Cameron, who was pulling her blue Suzuki SUV into the Everett Costco, where she’s a cashier. “Anything so people know I’m friendly.”

Her husband and daughter surprised her by decking out her car with a reindeer kit.

“I’ve always wanted them,” she said. “Oh, my gosh, people love it. They are like, ‘You are in the Christmas spirit.’ ” This year, the reindeer kits are everywhere, including

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WHAT’S UP WITH THAT

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Ideas? abrown@heraldnet.com or 425-339-3443. supermarkets and drug stores, for $10 to $15. A kit is $12.99 at a site called, well, stupid.com.

As the stupid site puts it: When you drive around town you’ll no longer be the tan SUV. You’ll be a real Reindeer and all the other cars will look like dirty ol’ grinches.”

As the owner of a boring tan SUV, that hit home. My car would look awesome with a red nose and reindeer antlers. “Only if I can take them off when I’m driving,” said my ol’ grinch husband.

Real men are in touch with their Rudolph side.

Nick Ortakales is proud of the

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plush antlers and shiny nose on his red Mini Cooper. It makes people happy, even in traffic hell.

“I’ve had people smile and wave while driving in downtown Seattle,” he said.

His friend, Ashley Poeppel, has a matching reindeer set on her blue Mini Cooper. “It gives them more personality,” she said.

As if those little cars can get any cuter.

It also makes it easy to find her little car in parking lots like Alderwood mall, where I cornered her.

“Just look for the reindeer antlers,” she said.

So, what are you waiting for?

Get your sleigh in gear so you can bust though shopping mall parking lots like a true reindeer and spread some joy.

If your car feels naked after the holidays, no problem.

Chances are sites like stupid. com will sell Easter Bunny ears.

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Marriage is a long, long road trip

DAILY CROSSWORD

Adapted from a recent online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: Most of the time, my husband will not accompany me on road trips (five and a half hours) to see my family. He says he hates driving. When he does see my family, he gets along with them fine. But we have two small children, and handling them both is a hassle.

I do it because I want to see my brother and sisters and family.

That’s the background.

So this past weekend, my husband is on the phone with his brother and sister, and as I listen, they plan this epic road trip from Pennsylvania to Michigan! And he’s so excited, he just ropes me right in for this road trip. It’s petty of me, but I want to just say: “I don’t feel like taking a road trip!” just so he can see what it feels like to deal with two small children by himself while family is asking questions.

Is it unfair to expect him to join me on road trips, too? It feels like he only wants to go on trips when it’s on his terms.

— Reciprocation?

Bean-counting is just a terrible idea. Either state your problem with the status quo, or figure out some way to embrace it.

The in-between, where you say nothing and allow your anger to

CAROLYN HAX TELL ME ABOUT IT accumulate, is a marriage-killer — even when it seems like the issue is too small to merit that kind of power.

Meanwhile, the issue (if I read you correctly) is that you’re angry about traveling solo with both kids. That has a lot of merit, where comparing the apples of visiting family to the oranges of a brothersister road trip doesn’t.

So I wonder: Why don’t you find a creative way around the central problem? Instead of always traveling solo with both kids, why don’t you mix it up and travel, say, once with everyone, once with no kids, once with Kid 1 and once with Kid 2 — on a permanent rotation? That way, you’ll not only distribute the effort more fairly, but also each of you will have a chance to nurture a closer bond with one child at a time.

Yes? No? Maybe?

SUPER QUIZ Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: RUDOLPH THE REDNOSED REINDEER. Most questions are based on the 1964 TV film. (e.g., Rudolph is popularly known as “Santa’s ____ Reindeer.” Answer: Ninth.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Rudolph made his first appearance in (a) 1939, (b) 1949, (c) 1959.

2. Who plays Sam the Snowman, the narrator of the story?

3. The Abominable Snow Monster of the North is also known as _____.

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. What does the elf named Hermey dream of becoming?

5. What is the name of the doe that is attracted to Rudolph?

6. What does Coach Comet pro-

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PH.D. LEVEL 7. What is the name of the boisterous prospector whose goal is to get rich quick?

8. Which of Santa’s reindeer is Rudolph’s father?

9. What is the name of the island where unwanted toys live?

ANSWERS: 1. (a) 1939. 2. Burl Ives.

3. “The Bumble.” 4. A dentist. 5. Clarice. 6. “Reindeer games.” 7. Yukon Cornelius. 8. Donner (Donder). 9.

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SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15-17 points — honors graduate; 10-14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4-9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1-3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Civil rights attorney Morris Dees is 78. Actress Joyce Bulifant is 77. Actress Liv Ullmann is 76. CBS news correspondent Lesley Stahl is 73. TV producer Steven Bochco is 71. Pop musician Tony Hicks (The Hollies) is 69. Pop singer Benny Andersson (ABBA) is 68. Actor Ben Cross is 67. Rock singer-musician Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) is 65. Rock musician Bill Bateman (The Blasters) is 63. Actor Sam Robards is 53. Actor Daniel Cosgrove is 44.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Michael McCary is 43. Actor Jonathan Scarfe is 39. Actress Krysten Ritter is 33. Actress Zoe Jarman (TV: “The Mindy Project”) is 32. Country musician Chris Scruggs is 32. Actress Amanda Setton is 29. Rock musician Dave Rublin (American Authors) is 28. Actress Hallee Hirsh is 27. Actress Anna Popplewell is 26.

Thought for Today: “There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

— Helen Keller, American author and lecturer (1880-1968).

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Re: Bean-Counting: The real issue is that her husband LIED about the reason he won’t join her. And lies are marriage-killers. — Anonymous I think LIED is too strong.

Something genuinely unappealing can genuinely become appealing when it involves fun payoffs (cool destinations versus in-laws), and special guest stars (adult sibs as travel buddies). Plus, an accusation of LYING would drive a wedge where sympathy would probably accomplish more.

“I get that you’re excited about road-tripping with Brother and Sister. But all this time I’ve traveled solo with the kids to see my family because you ‘hate’ driving. It’s just not sitting right with me.”

Re: Bean-Counting: You know what kills marriages more than bean-counting or lying?

Making decisions (“just so he can see what it feels like”) purely on the basis of how much pain/discomfort you can inflict on your spouse. And speaking of lying?

She said “yes” to her husband, and now is saying “no” to Carolyn.

Maybe work on that too.

— Anonymous 2 Fair nuff and well said. Both need to revisit a fundamental of marriage: Have each other’s backs.

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Nobody likes my pie Dear Abby: I feel like I am not appreciated at my husband’s family’s holiday gatherings. Everyone brings a dish, while I get assigned the “leftover” — which is usually a salad. I told my husband I wanted to bring the dessert one year, so I made a homemade pie.

His sister proceeded to bring two store-bought pies in addition to her dish.

No one ate any of my pie except for my husband and me. Even when I bring the salad, no one eats it, either.

I may not be the best cook, but I am a good one and my pie was perfect.

Because this has happened more than once, I feel discouraged about contributing, and I have told that to my husband. Do you have any advice about how I can contribute without feeling left out? — No Name, Please, In Missouri Dear No Name: Yes. Understand that when families gather for holiday dinners year after year, they often want particular foods prepared in the way to which they are accustomed.

While you may want to contribute, you may not be able to do that unless you are hosting the party.

From now on, unless you are asked to do otherwise, bring with you only a smile, your appetite, and flowers or a bottle of wine. If you do, there will be fewer hurt feelings and you’ll save yourself some work.

Dear Abby: I’m so upset.

I just found out my son was molested by one of his older cousins. “Ryan” didn’t want me to know because he was afraid of how I would react.

Ryan is 19 and a very private person. I want to confront the person who did this to him and press charges.

What’s upsetting is I tried hard to protect my children. I thought I was doing everything right by having my boys let their friends come and spend the night RIP HAYWIRE

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I want Ryan to go to counseling to understand he did nothing wrong, that it wasn’t his fault. Please help me to help my son. I partly blame myself for not knowing. How did I let this happen? I am their mother.

I am supposed to keep them safe. Please tell me what to do. — Confused Mother In North Carolina Dear Mother: Stay calm and understand that you have done nothing wrong.

This is no reflection upon you as a parent. While many people still believe that child molesters are creepy strangers who prey on little kids, the truth is the majority turn out to be family members or close friends one would never suspect.

Your son may be embarrassed or blame himself for what his cousin did.

Reassure him that when someone older acts out against a younger one, that is “coercion” — an imbalance of power and experience. Explain that it would be beneficial for him to talk to a therapist.

Whether the cousin can be arrested or prosecuted may depend upon how long ago this occurred, and how old the kids were at the time it happened.

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THE CLICKER Tuesday’s highlights on TV include: Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”) lends his voice to the title character in “Elf: Buddy’s Christmas Miracle.” It’s a new animated special inspired by the 2003 Will Ferrell feature film. 8 p.m., NBC. Like a cockroach, “Real World” just refuses to die. The venerable reality franchise launches its 30th season with “Real World: Skeletons.” The twist this time is that all the cast

25 years ago (1989) Fotini Evans of Everett celebrated her 91st birthday on Dec. 12 and said it was her

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PEOPLE members are hiding a dark secret. 10 p.m., MTV. The Peanuts gang returns in the heartwarming, anticommercialism manifesto “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” 8 p.m., ABC. A pint-size chef walks away with a hundred grand in the season finale of “MasterChef Junior.” Don’t blow it all on candy, kid. 8 p.m., Fox. From Herald news services

SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY 50 years ago (1964) Weyerhaeuser was to build another saw mill here — Mill D, between Mill C and Highway 99.

Looking over the site were Ted Fuller, construction superintendent and R. K. Headly, branch manager.

Designed for small logs, it would cost about $500,000.

The temperature sign at Everett Trust and Savings Bank on Colby Ave. read a chilling 5 degrees.

An icy wind that made even the warmest overcoat seem tissue thin plunged county thermometers during the night. It was minus 3 in Darrington.

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best birthday ever. She received dozens of gifts, cards, calls and visits from family and friends.

An active lady, she rode her exercise bicycle at least 20 minutes a day.

Nathan Hamlin, who was born yesterday to Howard and Tracy Hamlin of Marysville at Everett General Hospital Medical Center, had some special people sharing his December natal day.

His father was born that same day in 1950 at General. His grandfather Otto Hamlin of Granite Falls had a Dec. 15 birthday.

Dr. Clifford Roger, who delivered Nathan also celebrated his birthday yesterday.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library.

Nation, say goodbye to the ‘Colbert Report’

After nearly 10 years, 1,448 editions and an impact on the political zeitgeist that is well-nigh incalculable, the joke is finally over. “The Colbert Report” ends Thursday (11:30 p.m. ET on Comedy Central), much as it began — the longest-running gag in TV history. We can all perhaps say what “The Colbert Report” and its earnest, supercilious, vainglorious namesake host meant in words — one word in particular, “truthiness” — and deeds (the creation of his own satirical SuperPAC several years ago, as a prominent example).

Born 50 years ago into a large, Catholic, staunchly Republican family in South

Carolina, Colbert suffered great tragedy as a child — the deaths of two brothers and his father in a plane crash. As he tells the story, on the way home from the funeral, one of his sisters made another sister laugh so hard that she fell onto the floor of the car. In the crucible of that tragic-absurd moment, he decided he wanted to make people laugh, too.

Along with his comedic soul mate, Amy Sedaris, he lurched into Dadaesque TV projects at Chicago’s Second City, then went on to “Exit 57” and “Strangers with Candy,” all seemingly predicated on the notion that the universe was mad and — by association — so were those

who inhabited it. The creation of bumptious Stephen Colbert — the alter-ego of churchStephen going, Colbert married, and father-of-three Stephen Colbert — seemed like a natural progression: a character who believed that all was right with the world even in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

In a bizarre transformation of comic tautology, Colbert became “Colbert,” someone who believed in what he believed with such utterly fervent bloviating conviction that some

people weren’t entirely certain where the one Colbert ended and the other one began.

But after 10 years, the real Colbert — and probably some fans, too — thinks the deconstructing has finally run its course.

Sometime in 2015, he will become the next host of CBS’ “Late Show,” succeeding another comic legend, David Letterman.

It is what makes this week’s ending so intriguing, and next year’s transition so exciting. After all, Stephen Colbert is about to play perhaps the hardest role of his life, or at least the one role he has never played before: himself.

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2014 gave viewers great shows on air and online NEW YORK — From the extraordinary Maggie Gyllenhaal-starring miniseries “The Honorable Woman” on SundanceTV to Syfy’s goofy “Sharknado 2: The Second One,” TV delivered in 2014 — streaming, on cable and over the

air. Showtime’s “Homeland” roared back from last year’s muddle with a season of white-knuckle suspense.

CBS’ “The Good Wife” killed off a main character to give the show its latest burst of life. FX’s “Sons of Anarchy” ended its seven-season

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2014. There are 15 days left in the year.

The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset.

Today’s highlight: On Dec. 16, 1944, the World War II Battle of the

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Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg.

On this date: In 1653, Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

run with explosive closure.

HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” wrapped its saga with a fascinating season that juggled three phases in the life of Atlantic City potentate Nucky Thompson.

AMC’s “Mad Men” teed up satisfyingly for its final

round in 2015. Showtime’s “The Affair” gave fair warning against cheating on your spouse, while making such a misdeed seem irresistible.

And ABC’s “Scandal” was wackier than ever.

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In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight “world conquest by Communist imperialism.”

In 1956, Francis Cardinal Spellman, the Archbishop of New York, denounced movie “Baby Doll” starring Carroll Baker, saying Catholics would be committing a sin if they saw it.

In 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-25.

Ten years ago: Britain’s highest court dealt a huge blow to the government’s anti-terrorism policy by ruling that it could not detain foreign suspects indefinitely without trial.

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Stanwood church to host Blue Christmas event Herald staff

How is it treated?

Most sinus infections result from a virus and will get better on their own. Those that persist or become particularly severe, along with other signs of a secondary bacterial infection, may require an antibiotic. See your physician for medical care. Here are some additional steps you can take at home to help relieve a sinus infection.

Get adequate rest. Since lying down increases nasal congestion, try lying on the side that is least congested when you go to sleep.

Sip on hot liquids and drink plenty of fluids.

Apply moist heat using a towel moistened with warm water, or take a steamy shower or warm bath. Be sure to take precautions to avoid burning yourself with the water or steam.

Rinse your nasal passages with salt water to remove excess secretions. Add one-half teaspoon of table salt to 8 ounces of warm water. The water should be sterile or distilled. Mix well in a clean, empty squeeze bottle.

Then squirt into each side of your nose for several minutes two or three times a day. The NeilMed bottle or other brands that make sinus rinse kits are available at most drugstores and make it easy to do this. Follow product directions carefully.

Use over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen to relieve pain. Do not use aspirin if you are allergic to it or are under age 20.

Talk to your physician before routinely using cold remedies containing antihistamines or decongestants. Antihistamines may worsen a sinus infection by drying out mucous membranes and blocking your sinus openings. Studies have not shown that decongestants help sinusitis, and they may lead to side effects like insomnia, nervousness and a high blood pressure or pulse rate.

If you use a decongestant nose spray, limit it to no more than three days. Longer usage can cause nasal swelling to get worse once you stop the medication.

For more information: American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, http://acaai. org Elizabeth Smoots is the author of “Allergy Guide: Alternative & Conventional Solutions.” Send comments to readers@drsmoots. com or go to www.drsmoots.com.

Smoots’ columns are not intended as a substitute for medical advice or treatment. Before adhering to any recommendations in this column consult your health care provider.

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I was fine to continue using it.”

Even a medication’s method of delivery can be changed. For those with difficulty swallowing pills, such as children or hospice patients, capsules can be turned into something absorbed under the tongue, liquids or even into lollipop form.

While most people are celebrating the joys of Christmas, many are experiencing grief, lonesomeness, health problems, financial issues and family crises.

The church provides a

gathering for people who need to have their losses and hard times acknowledged and accepted. The worship service offers a time of remembrance of loved ones who died this year.

The Blue Christmas service, open to all, is 7 p.m. Dec. 21 at Stanwood United Methodist, 27128 102nd Drive NW. For more information, call the church office at 360-629-9555.

“It’s really all about the customer service,” Grisim said. “I’ve had hour-long conversations and even texted them if they’re out of office to discuss my medications.”

Shiraz also compounds veterinary medications for pets.

Fletcher estimates that half their business is dedicated to animal prescriptions.

“People are treating their pets more like family and they want the best for their health, too,” Fletcher said. “However, a lot of the medications aren’t available

in animal doses. You might need it for a 30-pound dog, but the standard is based on a 100pound human.”

For Fido, Shiraz even provides beef- or chicken-flavored options to help the medicine go down.

Competing with box stores can be a struggle since many customers assume they provide faster and cheaper service. Others don’t even know compounding options exist.

“A lot of people think compounding must be very

expensive, but it’s really not,” Fletcher said. “Look at the whole picture and weigh the options.

You can get your medication in the proper dose you really need, in a way you can actually take and tolerate. In the long run, that alone saves you so much in terms of being healthy.

“The relationship with your pharmacist can be just as important as the one with your doctor.

Find someone you relate to, lets you ask questions and gets the answers you need.”

This year, be a smart cookie during holiday season

By Gabriella Boston Special To The Washington Post

It’s that time of year again when everywhere we turn we’re offered creamy eggnog, savory charcuterie and sweet, meltin-your-mouth apple pie with whipped cream.

Sounds amazing to some, but to others the onslaught of holiday cocktail parties, extended family visits and office holiday buffets creates anxieties about weight gain that far override any seasonal merriment.

How to bring back the joy?

Nutrition and fitness experts offer this advice: Enjoy the seasonal offerings mindfully, stay active and hydrate — but don’t count calories! Here is an occasion-specific breakdown: 1. The cocktail party Unlike a sit-down or buffet dinner, the holiday cocktail party often features only bite-size treats along with an abundance of alcoholic drinks — from straight-up reds to creamy nogs and toddies. In other words, don’t arrive on an empty stomach, says Anne Mauney, a Washington registered dietitian.

“People have a tendency to ‘save up’ for the holiday cocktail party, but it’s better to eat normally during the day and not go to the party starving,” Mauney says, adding that it’s hard to “slow down and eat mindfully when you are starving.”

Mauney suggests prepping for the cocktail party during the day with a big salad that includes a generous helping of protein (for example, chicken or fish) because the appetizers, sweets and alcoholic drinks will be full of processed carbs and fats.

Mindful eating includes noticing the smells, flavors, textures

and colors of the food as well as eating more slowly.

Along with more enjoyment of the food, mindful eating has been associated with a better ability to self-regulate, says D.C. registered dietitian Rebecca Scritchfield.

“If we slow down, we tend not to overeat,” Scritchfield says.

And overdrink?

“I say enjoy your drink or drinks, but as we all know, alcohol lowers your inhibitions and affects your judgment.”

Judgment about a lot of things — including what you are putting in your mouth.

“A good strategy is to alternate alcohol and nonalcoholic drinks like sparkling water,” she says.

2. The holiday buffet Unlike a cocktail party, the holiday buffet is a fine time to show up hungry, Scritchfield says.

But before digging in, take a look at the entire spread and choose what you really want — not based on calorie counts but on the foods that give you the most satisfaction on that mindful-eating spectrum (texture, flavor, color, smell). So yes, that might mean bacon-wrapped shrimp or pigs in a blanket.

“Rather than asking, ‘What’s the healthiest for me?’ ask, ‘What looks the best to me?’”

Scritchfield says. “A lot of the food is seasonal and only comes around once a year, so enjoy it.”

Enjoy it, yes, but eat it slowly to give your body a chance to communicate when it’s full, Mauney says. “And don’t feel like you have to finish your plate,” she says. “Food should bring us pleasure, not guilt and anxiety.”

Instead of counting calories, they suggest finding some balance in the meal: protein, whole grains, fresh fruit and veggies to

go along with the mostly fat- and processed-carb-laden holiday food.

“And — like with any party — enjoy all of it, not just the food. Enjoy the centerpiece, the company, the conversation,” Scritchfield says.

3. The family visit When it comes to extended visits, food can lead not only to ill bellies, but also to ill feelings, Scritchfield says.

“I have clients who feel the social pressures to eat when they visit their parents,” she says. “But you have to set polite boundaries: ‘Thank you. It looks good, but I am really not hungry.

Maybe later?’ You have to say no without creating food fights.”

Mauney says one way to approach the predicament may be to get involved in the cooking process. “Offer to help out in the kitchen and make a dish you can contribute to the spread and something you can enjoy.”

If it’s breakfast and the host is preparing sausage and pancakes, you can cut up a fresh fruit salad or side dish, she suggests.

And for dinner or lunch, maybe you roast vegetables or make a salad so that you can load up on the veggies. A healthful dressing can easily be made with lemon, olive oil, Dijon mustard and vinegar.

“That way you can make half your plate veggies,” she says.

And everybody — hopefully — is happy.

4. The aftermath Winter — including the holidays — is a time when many people put on one or two pounds. The reasons are pretty obvious: We eat higher-calorie foods and move less.

But don’t try to counteract this

with crazy diets and cleanses, says Scritchfield, adding that most people lose the one to two pounds in the six to eight weeks that follow the holidays. “At least 95 percent of those who diet gain the weight back. Diets don’t work,” Scritchfield says.

The message should be overall health and fitness: practicing healthful lifestyle strategies such as regular exercise, preparing your own food and drinking more water, she says.

“Take the struggle out of it. We tend to do better when we stop fighting and overthinking the food.”

5. And don’t forget to move With the added caloric intake over the holidays, you may want to try to include some added caloric output — also known as physical exercise, says Gabe Free, a personal trainer at Atlas Fitness in Washington.

“Try to add more everyday activity, like walking, taking the stairs, parking farther away and maybe joining a gym,” Free says.

But what will really make a difference, he says, is to add strength training or cardio in the form of circuit training (especially if the weather is too dreadful for a run). If you’re already familiar with weightlifting or have access to a trainer, Free suggests working toward heavy weights and lower rep counts (five to six). The heavy lifting will build muscle — also referred to as lean body mass — which increases metabolism.

“At the end of the day, it’s calories in and calories out when it comes to weight management,” Free says. “But there are other benefits, too, and just adding a little more daily activity has positive effects on blood sugar regulation and overall health.”

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NO. 14-4-01710-9 NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH In re the Estate of: LORETTA MABEL WARD Deceased.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as personal representative of this estate. Persons having claims against the deceased must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by a ny o t h e r w i s e a p p l i c a bl e statute of limitations, serve their claims on the personal representative or the attorneys of record at the address state below and file an executed copy of the claim with the Clerk of this Court within four months after the date of ďŹ rst publication of this notice or within four months after the date of filing of the copy of this notice with the Clerk of this Court, whichever is later or, except under those provisions included in RCW 11.40.011 or RCW 11.40.013, the claim will be forever barred. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

DATE OF FILING COPY OF N OT I C E TO C R E D I TO R S with Clerk of the Court: December 9, 2014.

DATES OF PUBLICATION: 12/09/2014, 12/16/2014, 12/23/2014 Dated: December 5, 2014.

Respectfully Submitted by: BRIAN L. DUCE, WSBA24613 Attorney for Estate Co-Personal Representatives: Brad Schoenberg Ferrier and Jana Lei Schoenberg

Address: 12212 51st Ave NE Marysville, WA 98271 Attorney for Estate: BRIAN L. DUCE Address: 1701 Grove Street Marysville, WA 98270 Telephone: (360) 659-9210 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 2014.

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1VCMJD /PUJDFT NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE The Snohomish County Public Transpor tation Benefit Area Corporation (Community Transit) has issued a determination of nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Swamp Creek Park and Ride Renovation, located at 3115 164th St SW in unincorporated Snohomish County near Lynnwood, Washington.

After review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with the agency, Community Transit has determined that this proposal will not have a probable signiďŹ cant adverse impact on the environment.

Copies of the environmental checklist and DNS are available at no charge from Todd Jacobs at Community Transit, 7100 Hardeson Road, Everett, WA 98203 or on Community Transit’s website at www.communitytransit.org. The public is invited to comment on this DNS by submitting written comments no later than 5:00 p.m., December 30, 2014 to Todd Jacobs at Community Transit, 7100 Hardeson Road, Everett, WA 98203. Comments may also be emailed to: riders@commtrans.org. This determination may be appealed by writing Joy Munkers, Director of Planning and Development, Community Transit, 7100 Hardeson Road, Everett, WA 98203 no later than 5:00 p.m. on January 6, 2015, and by submitting a written statement requesting an appeal, setting forth the information required by Community Transit’s SEPA rules (Resolution 3-05), and paying the required fee.

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NFL Ryan Lindley joined the Cardinals five weeks ago.

Sunday, he will start at quarterback against the Seahawks, C5

TUESDAY, 12.16.2014

Seahawks’ Okung unlikely to play Left tackle Russell Okung, who bruised a lung against the 49ers, has not been ruled out for Sunday’s game against Cardinals.

By John Boyle Herald Writer

RENTON — Russell Okung’s stay in the hospital Sunday afternoon was a brief one, and now the Seahawks hope the same

can be said for the left tackle’s absence from the playing field.

Okung, who sustained a bruised lung in Sunday’s win over San Francisco, is almost certainly out for this week’s game against Arizona, which could determine

the NFC West championship and perhaps home field advantage in the playoffs. Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll wouldn’t definitively rule Okung out, saying in his always optimistic manner, “There’s always a

chance.”

Realistically, however, Okung will miss this week’s game. The Seahawks will hope to have him back for the regular-season finale against St. Louis, or if not that, then for the postseason

presuming they get there.

“It sounds like it’s a week or two unless we get a really good report,” Carroll said. “We’re going to kind of hope for the best and see how he does. He really wants to play if he can, and if he can’t, we’ll find out. But we’ll hold a See SEAHAWKS, Page C5

COMMUNITY SPORTS TONIGHT’S GAME

Everett at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Radio: KRKO (1380 AM)

Tips look forward to Xmas break

By Nick Patterson Herald writer

first game with U-9 teams when he was 13.

“I remember thinking, ‘I know everything. I know all the rules,’” Griffis said. “But right before I blew the whistle to start that game I was very nervous, and I reffed not really knowing what I was doing. On throw-ins I probably pointed the wrong way 10 times.”

“I felt overwhelmed. I was thinking, ‘I don’t know if I want these coaches and parents yelling at me.’ And I didn’t really know if I’d be able to perform well in those high-pressure situations. But when it came down to it, I was fine.”

EVERETT — The Everett Silvertips are two days away from heading home for the holidays.

They want to make sure they’re free to celebrate in full.

Everett has two games remaining before the Christmas break arrives, and the Tips are determined to head home on a winning note.

Everett’s final two games before the WHL shuts down for the Christmas break are Tuesday at Vancouver and Wednesday at home against Victoria. After that the Tips take nine days off, giving the players the opportunity to return to their homes for some rest and relaxation over the holidays. “(The Christmas break) is something that creeps into your mind when you’re grinding away every day,” Everett overage winger Brayden Low said. “You look forward to seeing friends and family you haven’t seen in a while. But for us it’s a matter of going out and getting the job done against a couple of good teams.”

The Tips are heading toward the break, which serves as the unofficial midpoint of the season, in good position. Currently they are 19-8-3-1 and in first place in the U.S. Division with 42 points.

Everett is just one point ahead of second-place Portland, but the Tips have played five fewer games. The Winterhawks have already completed their first-half schedule, meaning Everett will enter the break in first regardless of how the games Tuesday and Wednesday unfold.

“It’s gone really well, I think,” Low said about Everett’s first half.

“We’re leading the U.S. Division and hopefully we’ll carry that into the break. That’s nothing short of really good. We’ve slipped a little the past month, but we started well enough to be on top at this point.”

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Logan Griffis, a 19-year-old soccer official from Everett, has officiated approximately 1,500 games in his career, which began at the age of 13.

Youth will be served

Everett’s 19-year-old Logan Griffis has emerged as one of the state’s most promising young soccer officials.

By Rich Myhre Herald Writer

KIRKLAND — Being a young soccer official has its challenges, Logan Griffis admits. Players always try to see what they can get away with, particularly with a referee who just might be younger than they are.

“Players like to test me early just to see what kind of referee I am ... with fouls and outbursts and stuff like that,” said the 19-year-old Griffis, who is from Everett. “But if I can make myself look confident in my decisions with a strong whistle and a loud voice, I can kind of assert my authority.

“And I’ve been told by people

that I look older than I am when I’m out there reffing a game.”

Griffis, a 2013 graduate of Seattle’s King’s High School, has emerged as one of the state’s most promising young soccer officials. Barely out of high school himself, he was a linesman for last spring’s Class 4A boys state championship game between Snohomish and Ferris.

This fall he was the referee for the Class 3A girls state semifinal game between Edmonds-Woodway and Bellevue, and the Class 4A girls state championship game between Jackson and Central Valley.

A top official needs knowledge and skills along with a knack for dealing with emotional

players and coaches, and putting that all together “is hard,” said Will Niccolls, the referee program director for U.S. Soccer in Washington. It is, he went on, something “that’s usually seen in someone older. Logan is quite unique in his ability to do all that as a young man.”

There are other outstanding young officials in Washington, including a few from Snohomish County, Niccolls added, “but Logan is unquestionably in our top group.”

Griffis started playing soccer as a young boy and went on to be a goalkeeper for four varsity seasons at King’s. His love of the game had earlier led him to take up officiating, and he worked his

Glacier Peak girls rally in second half, beat Arlington 61-58

By Rich Myhre Herald Writer

SNOHOMISH — Early in the third quarter, with his team trailing Arlington by 13 points, Glacier Peak girls basketball coach Brian Hill knew he needed to make a change.

Hill put his team into a 1-3-1 halfcourt trap and the strategy had a twofold effect. Glacier Peak got some steals and breakaways, and it also seemed to throw the Arlington offense out of whack.

The result was a momentum

swing that allowed the Grizzlies to rally for a thrilling 61-58 nonconference victory Monday night in a showdown of two undefeated teams.

Facing a 13-point deficit, “we needed to change something because what we were doing wasn’t working,” Hill said. “I was skeptical to go (from manto-man) to any zone against them because they shoot really well outside. But we just had to change something.”

As the trapping defense began to pay dividends, the Grizzlies

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started whittling away at the margin. It was down to eight points at the end of three quarters, and in the early minutes of the fourth period they went on a 13-2 scoring burst for a 54-50 lead.

“It allowed us to do to them what they were doing to us, which was put pressure on us and forcing us into some mistakes,” Hill said. “We were hoping to put it back on them and it worked.”

Still, the visiting Eagles did not go quietly. A 3-pointer by guard Sarah Shortt and a free throw by forward Jayla Russ tied the score,

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but at that point Glacier Peak eased back in front. The go-ahead points came on a 3-pointer by guard Natalie Rasmussen from left of the key, and after Shortt scored with an offensive putback, Grizzlies guard Sadie Mensing pushed the lead back to three with a shot from near the top of the key.

Russ gave Arlington hope with a basket with 13 seconds remaining, making the score 59-58, but Rasmussen coolly dropped in two free throws with six seconds left for the final margin.

“Arlington is a really good team,” Hill said. After falling behind late in the first quarter, “it was easy for us to put our heads down at times and feel a little dejected. But we just had to keep fighting.”

The Grizzlies got a big lift from sophomore guard Sammy Fatkin, one of the team’s four new starters this season (Mensing is the only returning starter). The 5-foot-10 Fatkin was at the point of the halfcourt trap and she had

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BOYS BASKETBALL Wesco 4A—Mariner at Monroe, Snohomish at Jackson, Kamiak at Lake Stevens, Mount Vernon at Cascade, all 7:15 p.m.

Cascade Conference—King’s at Lakewood, Archbishop Murphy at Sultan, Granite Falls at South Whidbey, all 6:45 p.m.; Cedarcrest at Cedar Park Christian-Bothell, 7 p.m.

Northwest 1A/2B—Darrington at Friday Harbor, 6 p.m.; Shoreline Christian at Concrete, 7:30 p.m.

Northwest 1B—Grace Academy at Lopez Island, 5 p.m.; Orcas Christian at Tulalip Heritage, 7 p.m.; Mount Vernon Christian at Cedar Park Christian-Mountlake Terrace, 7:30 p.m.

Nonconference—Mountlake Terrace at Arlington, Marysville Getchell at Lynnwood, Oak Harbor at Meadowdale, Shorecrest at Stanwood, Edmonds-Woodway at Everett, Shorewood at Marysville Pilchuck, BOYS SWIMMING Wesco—Monroe vs. Mount Vernon at Skagit Valley YMCA, 2:30 p.m.; Kamiak at Marysville Pilchuck, Kamiak vs. Marysville Getchell, both at Marysville Pilchuck H.S., 2:45 p.m.; Mountlake Terrace at Stanwood, Edmonds-Woodway at Stanwood, both at Mariner H.S., 2:45 p.m.; Jackson at Meadowdale, Jackson at Lynnwood, both at Lynnwood Pool, 3:15 p.m.; Everett vs.

Mariner at Kamiak H.S., 3:15 p.m.; Cascade vs. Shorewood at Shoreline Pool, 3:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Cascade Conference—Cedarcrest at Cedar Park Christian-Bothell, 5:15 p.m.; Lakewood at King’s, South Whidbey at Granite Falls, Sultan at Archbishop Murphy, all 6:45 p.m.

Northwest 1A/2B—Darrington at Friday Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

Northwest 1B—Mount Vernon Christian at Cedar Park Christian-Mountlake Terrace, 6 p.m.

WRESTLING Nonconference—Ingraham, Jackson, Lakewood at Mariner Double Dual, 5:30 p.m.; Marysville Pilchuck vs. Shorewood, Marysville Getchell vs. Lynnwood, both at Shorewood H.S., 5:30 p.m.; Stanwood vs.

Meadowdale, Oak Harbor vs. Mountlake Terrace, both at Mountlake Terrace H.S, 5:30 p.m.; Everett vs. Edmonds-Woodway, Arlington vs. Glacier Peak, both at EdmondsWoodway H.S., 5:30 p.m.; Marysville Pilchuck vs. Lynnwood, Marysville Getchell vs.

Shorewood, both at Shorewood H.S., 7 p.m.; Arlington vs. Edmonds-Woodway, Everett vs.

Glacier Peak, both at Edmonds-Woodway H.S., 7 p.m.; Stanwood vs. Mountlake Terrace, Oak Harbor vs. Meadowdale, both at Mountlake Terrace H.S., 7 p.m.; Kamiak at Shorecrest, 7 p.m.

Zags rout Texas Southern 94-54 Herald news services SPOKANE — After playing three consecutive games against Pacific-12 teams, No. 8 Gonzaga needed a break.

The Bulldogs got one.

Kyle Wiltjer scored 21 points to help No. 8 Gonzaga rout Texas Southern 94-54 on Monday night.

Wiltjer made 9 of 11 shots, including all three of his 3-point attempts to help the Zaps improve to 10-1.

“I was finding open shots in a variety of ways,” Wiltjer said.

Eleven players scored for the Zags as coach Mark Few went heavily to his bench.

“To have those guys contribute tonight was great,” Wiltjer said. “It shows our depth.”

Domantas Sabonis added 16 points, Silas Melson 13 and Kevin Pangos 11 for Gonzaga.

Pangos had six assists.

“A whole lot of unselfish guys got after it on defense,” Gonzaga’s Gary Bell Jr. said.

Melson, a freshman, said Texas Southern did not compare to No. 3 Arizona, Washington State and UCLA, the Zags’ previous three opponents.

“It was nice to get our feet under us,” Melson said.

Madarious Gibbs and Deverell Biggs each scored 12 points for Texas Southern (1-8). David Blanks added 11.

Gonzaga has a 32-game home winning streak, second-longest in the nation behind Duke’s 37 straight home wins.

Gonzaga’s only loss this season was in overtime at No. 3 Arizona.

Gonzaga’s size and athleticism were too much for the Tigers, who made just 36 percent of

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Gonzaga’s Domantas Sabonis (11) tries to block the shot of Texas Southern’s Madarious Gibbs in Monday’s game.

their shots. The Bulldogs shot 64 percent and made 10 of 19 3-pointers. Gonzaga won the rebound battle 38-27.

Gonzaga made its first five field goal attempts and built a 14-2 lead in the early going.

Texas Southern made just one field goal in the first 61⁄2 minutes.

The Tigers started hitting some baskets, but still trailed 23-12 with 7:54 left in the first.

Angel Nunez scored to put Gonzaga up 30-14, as the Tigers made only seven of their first 20

shots.

Wiltjer’s 3-pointer highlighted a 10-0 run that lifted Gonzaga to a 40-16 lead at halftime. Texas Southern was scoreless for the last 41⁄2 minutes of the first half.

The Tigers shot just 27.6 percent in the first half, including going 0-for-9 from 3-point range.

Gonzaga shot 57.7 percent in the first, with nine different players scoring.

Gonzaga made three unanswered 3-pointers — by Bell, Pangos and Wiltjer — to open

the second half and take a 49-16 lead.

The Bulldogs made eight of their first 10 shots of the second half to push their lead to 62-28 and coasted to victory.

The teams met once before, with Gonzaga winning in 2008.

Seattle U. 84, Northwest 54 Seattle — Jarell Flora scored 24 points to lead Seattle University to a victory over Northwest College.

Isiah Umipig scored 13 points for the Redhawks and Manroop Clair added 12 for Seattle.

WHL | Notebook

Lethbridge fires coach and general manager

By Nick Patterson The circus in Lethbridge claimed two more victims last week.

The dysfunctional franchise cleaned house as the Hurricanes fired general manager Brad Robson and head coach Drake Berehowsky.

Lethbridge has been an organization in disarray for some time. The Hurricanes missed the playoffs each of the past five seasons, bottoming out last season when Lethbridge finished with the worst record in the league.

For more than a year the Hurricanes have watched their best players bail out and demand trades, while high-profile bantam draft picks have been slow to commit. This season hasn’t been any different as Lethbridge is tied with Saskatoon for the fewest points in the league.

Earlier this season the community-owned team ousted president Brian McNaughton and replaced him with Doug

Paisley. Now the hockey operations staff has undergone a complete overhaul. Berehowsky was fired last Tuesday, then Robson was given his pink slip the next day.

Both Robson and Berehowsky were hired following the firing of general manager/head coach Rich Preston after the 2012-13 season. Berehowsky finished with a record of 18-74-5-4 at the helm.

To replace Robson and Berehowsky, the Hurricanes elevated Peter Anholt, hired as assistant general manager before the season, to both the positions of general manager and head coach.

Anholt has 14 seasons of headcoaching experience in the WHL, having compiled a 450-460-63 record with Prince Albert, Seattle, Red Deer and Kelowna. He hasn’t coached in the WHL since parting ways with Prince Albert in 2007, and he has no experience as a WHL general manager.

“Pete’s our solution for right now, he’s the right guy for right now,” Paisley told the Lethbridge

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Nevertheless, the Tips are looking to win these last two games, and thus be able to head home on a high. “(Finishing the first half strong) is very important,” Low said. “Not just team wise, but I think in terms of the fact teams have made up ground on us. Another four-point separation can’t hurt. We need all the points we can get to help to keep building a lead, and maybe we can catch teams when they’re already thinking about the Christmas break.”

The Tips are also cognizant of the dangers of the midseason doldrums. Last season Everett opened the season 20-4-4-0 and had the best record in the league.

However, beginning in December the Tips fell into a swoon that carried over into the second half.

Between Dec. 3 and Feb. 8 Everett was 6-17-3-1 and found itself fighting for its playoff life. Only a late rally, in which the Tips went 11-0-0-2 to finish the season, ensured a spot in the postseason.

This season Everett has

Herald. “We did a lot of research on this and we’ve had a lot of discussion. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of opinion with a 15-member board and this wasn’t a light decision, when you’re working with people’s livelihoods and changing people’s path. These aren’t things we take lightly so we did spend numerous hours working toward this decision that we feel comfortable with as a board.

“It’s the right decision for the Hurricanes organization.”

And it’s one Lethbridge hopes ends its long cycle of futility.

Around the WHL It was a big week with regards to high-profile defensemen being moved. ... Kelowna picked up perhaps the most-coveted prize in the trade market, acquiring 19-year-old defenseman Josh Morrissey from Prince Albert. Morrissey, the 13thoverall pick in the 2013 NHL draft by the Winnipeg Jets, went to the Rockets along with 19-year-old forward Gage Quinney. In exchange the Raiders received 19-year-old defenseman Jesse Lees, 18-year-old forward Austin Glover, a second-round pick

Today’s Game Opponent: Vancouver Giants When: 7 p.m.

Where: Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. Radio: KRKO (1380 AM)

Live blog: www.heraldnet.com/silvertipsblog (Stats through Thursday)

Tale of the Tape EVERETT

Vancouver

19-8-3-1 (42 pts.)

15-18-0-0 (30 pts.)

1st in U.S. 5th in B.C. 1-0-0-0................. Streak ...............6-0-0-1 5-4-1-0.................Last 10...............6-4-0-0 1-0-0-0...........Head to head .........0-1-0-0 20.9 (9th) ......... Power play ....... 25.2 (3rd) 74.4 (21st) ....... Penalty kill ..... 78.5 (14th)

Top Skaters EVERETT

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RW Nikita Scherbak (14 goals, 24 assists) C Ivan Nikolishin (8 goals, 22 assists)

C Carter Popoff (14 goals, 15 assists) C Thomas Foster (7 goals, 20 assists)

followed a similar pattern. The Tips opened 14-2-2-1 to build a lead in the U.S. Division. But the Tips are just 5-6-1-0 since. They want to make sure the pattern from last season doesn’t hold.

“That’s in our minds,” Low

RW Carson Stadnyk LW Tyler Benson (11 goals, 17 assists) (6 goals, 13 assists)

No. 1 Goaltenders EVERETT

TRI-CITY

Austin Lotz Payton Lee 14-6-1-1, 2.67, .905 11-11-0-0, 2.99, .894

Key Injuries/Suspensions Everett: D Ben Betker (concussion), D Tristen Pfeifer (upper body), RW Logan Aasman (upper body).

Vancouver: RW Jackson Houck (lower body), D Clayton Kirichenko (upper body), Rw Ty Ronning (upper body).

acknowledged. “For some guys the thoughts started creeping in. Last year it had a lot to do with injuries. This year I think it’s about being mentally ready to start every period. It’s been more of a mental thing than missing

in the 2016 bantam draft and a third rounder in 2017. ... Red Deer, with an eye not only on this season but also next season when the Rebels host the Memorial Cup, acquired 18-year-old defenseman Nelson Nogier from Saskatoon. Nogier, a fourth-round pick

by Winnipeg in this year’s NHL draft, went to Red Deer along with 18-yearold forward Austin Adamson. The Blades received 17-year-old forward Mason McCarty, a first-round bantam pick in 2016 and a second rounder in 2015. ... Lethbridge released 19-year-old defenseman Griffin Foulk. Foulk is a former Everett Silvertip. ... Medicine Hat’s Cole Sanford was named the WHL Player of the Week. The 19-year-old forward had four goals and four assists as the Tigers went 2-1.

Leaders Points — Nick Merkley (Kelowna) 52; goals — Rourke Chartier (Kelowna) 32; assists — Merkley 42; penalty minutes — Ryan Rehill (Kamloops) 94; wins — Jordan Papirny (Brandon) 21; goals against average — Taran Kozun (Seattle) 2.18; save percentage — Adin Hill (Portland) .926.

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guys. Hopefully we can finish off strong and carry that over after the break.”

The second half of the season begins on Dec. 27 when the Tips play host to Vancouver.

That’s followed by a busy January in which Everett has both a six-game road trip through the East Division and a fourgame road trip through Prince George and Kelowna.

Slap shots Everett overage defenseman Ben Betker did not take part in Monday’s practice. Betker, who is dealing with a concussion suffered in Everett’s 5-3 loss at Portland on Dec. 6, is doubtful to play Tuesday in Vancouver. Defenseman Tristen Pfeifer and winger Logan Aasman remain unavailable because of upper-body injuries. ... On Tuesday the Tips face the hottest team in the WHL. The Giants were 9-16-0-0 and plummeting when head coach Troy Ward was fired. Claude Noel took over after the Giants returned from a four-game road trip through the Central Division, and Vancouver has won all five contests under his tutelage. Overall the Giants have won six straight. ... The WHL’s trade moratorium began Monday. It is lifted Dec. 26.

Check out Nick Patterson’s Silvertips blog at http://www.heraldnet.com/ silvertipsblog, and follow him on Twitter at @NickHPatterson.

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PREP ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Kevin Villalobos Mariner | Boys Basketball Villalobos scored 18 points in a win over Shorewood on Saturday, 23 in a win over Lake Stevens on Friday and 21 in a loss to Marysville Getchell on Tuesday.Villalobos has the Marauders off to an impressive 4-1 start this season.

Savanna Hanson King’s | Girls Basketball Hanson scored 19 points, grabbed 19 rebounds and also added six blocks, six assists and three steals in a win over Cedarcrest and had 15 points and 11 rebounds in loss to Post Falls from Idaho. The Knights are 1-1 this season.

Mason McKenzie Darrington | Wrestling McKenzie pinned Concrete’s Braden Olmstead in 4:25 to win the 220-pound weight class at the Iron Sharpens Iron tournament on Saturday at Bellevue Christian High School. McKenzie also helped the Loggers win the team championship.

Chase Reid Lake Stevens| Boys Swimming Reid won the 50 freestyle and 1-meter diving and also helped the Vikings to wins in the 200-medley relay and 400-freestyle relay in victories over Mountlake Terrace and Edmonds-Woodway on Tuesday. He also won the diving and the 100 freestyle in victories over Marysville Getchell and Marysville Pilchuck on Thursday.

Jo Jo Durr Everett | Girls Bowling Durr bowled a 234 game and a 590 series to help the Seagulls sweep Jackson 3-0 on Tuesday.

The Athletes of the Week are selected by The Herald sports staff with input from area coaches.

BASKETBALL POWER POLLS The Herald’s weekly high school basketball power poll for area boys and girls teams, with the team name, total points and last week’s finish.

Boys T1. Marysville Pilchuck 42(1) T1. Arlington 42(1) T1. Glacier Peak 42(1) 4. Stanwood 35 5. King’s 33 6. Edmonds-Woodway 28 7. Mariner 26 8. Snohomish 20 T9. Archbishop Murphy 19 T9. Kamiak 19 11. Cascade 17 12. Shorecrest 16 13. Mountlake Terrace 11 14. Shorewood 7 15. Jackson 3

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Kamiak’s comeback kid

Despite missing two of her first three seasons with knee injuries, Grace Hamill battled back and has helped lead the Knights to a 3-1 start

By David Krueger Herald Writer

One torn anterior cruciate ligament is enough to deter some people from ever playing basketball again.

Not Grace Hamill. Not even close.

The Kamiak point guard has battled back after not one, not two, but three ACL tears that have forced her to miss the majority of her high school career. The senior has rehabbed once again and is back on the court for the Knights, who are off to a 3-1 start this season.

“It’s kind of crazy to think, but I don’t really know anything else, I guess,” Hamill said. “It’s not too bad.”

Hamill’s first ACL tear, in her left knee, came while playing the summer before her freshman year and forced her to miss the season. She recovered and played as a sophomore, then tore her right ACL the summer before her junior year. That winter, soon after being cleared to resume physical activity, Hamill tore her right ACL again, officially ending her hopes of playing her junior season.

By the third ACL tear, Hamill knew exactly what was going on.

“I knew what it was ...,” she said.

“I was hoping it was just a tweak.

But I could kind of tell. It was kind of like, ‘Oh, I worked so hard to get here. I wish it didn’t happen.’ But after I went through it, I just got more motivation to come back.”

Kamiak head coach Brian Norman praises Hamill for the way she persevered through the pain and frustration.

“If all the girls were like Grace — with regards to the hard work, the effort, the dedication and leadership — this world would be a better place,” Norman said. “She’s been through a lot her freshman and junior years. But she’s always been a leader off the court, constantly encouraging and making other

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Kamiak point guard Grace Hamill (left) looks to pass under pressure from Monroe’s Kylee Ferreira during Friday night’s game in Monroe.

girls better by her presence. It’s just been a great experience having her around despite the circumstances.”

Norman, in his second year as the varsity coach, was leading the junior varsity when Hamill suffered her first knee injury. When the next ACL tear occurred two years later, he couldn’t believe it.

“Every ACL is like, ‘Oh no.’ And when it comes to the second — and the third — it’s like, ‘Oh no!

Oh no!’” Norman said. “It’s pretty

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three layins in a stretch of 90 seconds of the late third and early fourth quarters.

Fatkin also had the highlight play of the game, delivering a one-handed behind-the-back pass off the dribble to teammate Kayla Watkins, who unfortunately missed the layin.

“She’s special,” Hill said of Fatkin, who led all scorers with 16 points. “Her composure and her poise, even with their pressure. Arlington had to kind of get out of their press because they couldn’t stop her. She’s pretty fast (in the open court).”

The win raises Glacier Peak’s record to 6-0, and Hill said he is understandably “really happy with my team right now.”

devastating for, not only her, but her teammates, her sister took it really hard because her whole family’s been through a lot of knee trauma.

It’s pretty devastating. It’s really sad.”

Knee injuries tend to run in Hamill’s family. She said her father’s side of the family is almost known for ACL tears.

“My dad’s had four ACL surgeries, my sister’s had two, my brother’s

Arlington coach Joe Marsh was disappointed with the outcome, “but as I just told (the team), that was a great high school basketball game. We got more value out of that tonight than anything else, and now we need to take from this and learn a lesson.

“The lesson is, when the game gets tight like that we have to be able to handle it. I felt like we were in control of the game for most of the game. But then they made an adjustment and went to their zone trap, and their length bothered us. We didn’t handle it and that’s disappointing.”

But despite the loss, “that did not look like a December basketball game,” Marsh said. That’s two really good teams going toe to toe. ... It was a pressure situation, and for me the value of that was great.”

Guard Emma Janousek had 13 points for the Eagles, who dropped to 5-1.

had a knee (injury) — he didn’t play basketball but he threw the javelin and had some other knee issue — and then I’ve had three,” Hamill said. “So, our whole family has had joint issues.”

At one point, Hamill said, she considered giving up basketball.

“I thought about not playing for school, but I just like it so much,” she said. “I love the program and I love the coaches and the girls and I couldn’t just give up on all those people.”

Norman said Hamill is an integral part of this year’s team.

“She plays point guard and she’s just active,” Norman said. “She’s smart. Obviously, she’s dedicated and works hard all the time. It doesn’t matter what drill we’re doing. She’s the hardest worker we have and that’s how she leads. She’s really one of the quickest girls on the court. ... She’s just very important to the team.”

Hamill has scored 32 points this season, including 14 in Kamiak’s 51-49 nail-biting victory over Monroe in its Wesco 4A opener Friday.

However, it’s not just on the basketball court where she shines.

“Off the court she’s a great person,” Norman said. “She’ll go out of her way to make others feel welcome, from the C team to JV kids to kids that she doesn’t know at school. That’s the best part about Grace. We missed her, but she wasn’t really gone that far.

She was hanging around and still encouraging.”

Now, when she’s leading the Knights down the court or putting a shot up, Hamill isn’t concerned about her knee.

“I trust my rehab and how I worked back,” she said. “But, I guess I play differently because once you’ve had an injury, you are more aware of things. You don’t want to put yourself in a situation where you could get hurt again.

“I play just as hard, I just do it

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PREPS | Scoreboard GIRLS BASKETBALL Shorecrest 41, M. Getchell 30 At Marysville Getchell Shorecrest 10 6 10 15 — 41 M. Getchell 4 11 7 0 — 30 Shorecrest—Bianca Harris 7, Wurrie Njadoe 8, Ari Rantz 2, Jazzlyn Owens 7, Julia Strand 2, Shelby Gresch 1, Sheridan Stephenson 14, Samantha Shoemaker 0, Josie Dorn 0. Marysville Getchell—Kyrin Jarvis 0, Justice Vela 2, Carley Wika 1, Gabrielle Grandbois 8, Jada Romulus 6, Kaitlyn McCormick 2, Marina Wika 5, Taylor Cannal 6. 3-point goals—Owens 1, Grandbois 1, M.Wika 1. Records—Shorecrest 4-2 overall.

Marysville Getchell 4-2.

Glacier Peak 61, Arlington 58 At Glacier Peak H.S. Arlington 22 11 15 10 — 58 Glacier Peak 13 12 16 20 — 61 Arlington—Gracie Castaneda 6, Serafina Balderas 0, Sarah Short 10, Sevi Bielser 10, Brittany DeNike 0, Olivia Larson 2, Emma Janousek 13, Jessica Ludwig 9, Jayla Russ 8. Glacier Peak—Sadie Mensing 13, Natalie Rasmussen

BASKETBALL NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Portland 19 6 .760 — Oklahoma City 11 13 .458 7½ Denver 10 14 .417 8½ Utah 6 18 .250 12½ Minnesota 5 18 .217 13 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 21 2 .913 — L.A. Clippers 17 7 .708 4½ Phoenix 12 14 .462 10½ Sacramento 11 13 .458 10½ L.A. Lakers 8 17 .320 14 Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Memphis 19 4 .826 — Houston 18 5 .783 1 San Antonio 17 8 .680 3 Dallas 17 8 .680 3 New Orleans 11 12 .478 8 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 19 6 .760 — Brooklyn 10 12 .455 7½ Boston 8 14 .364 9½ New York 5 21 .192 14½ Philadelphia 2 22 .083 16½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Washington 17 6 .739 — Atlanta 17 7 .708 ½ Miami 11 13 .458 6½ Orlando 10 17 .370 9 Charlotte 6 18 .250 11½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 15 9 .625 — Cleveland 14 9 .609 ½ Milwaukee 13 12 .520 2½ Indiana 8 17 .320 7½ Detroit 5 20 .200 10½ Today’s games Minnesota at Washington, 4 p.m.

Miami at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Dallas at New York, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 7:30 p.m.

Trail Blazers 108, Spurs 95 SAN ANTONIO (95) K.Leonard 7-18 7-8 21, Diaw 4-9 1-3 10, Baynes 6-9 3-4 15, Joseph 5-10 1-2 12, Green 5-11 0-0 12, Ayres 2-2 0-0 4, Anderson 6-7 3-5 15, Belinelli 3-9 0-0 6, Daye 0-2 0-0 0, Bonner 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 38-78 15-22 95.

PORTLAND (108) Batum 3-8 0-0 7, Aldridge 10-21 3-3 23, Lopez 1-7 2-2 4, Lillard 8-18 6-6 23, Matthews 5-10 1-2 14, Blake 1-4 0-0 2, Kaman 4-6 3-4 11, Barton 1-3 0-0 3, Crabbe 3-4 1-1 8, Freeland 3-6 0-0 6, Robinson 2-2 3-4 7, M.Leonard 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 41-89 19-22 108.

San Antonio 20 23 25 27 — 95 Portland 23 25 28 32 — 108 3-Point Goals—San Antonio 4-11 (Green 2-4, Joseph 1-1, Diaw 1-4, Daye 0-1, Belinelli 0-1), Portland 7-18 (Matthews 3-5, Barton 1-1, Crabbe 1-2, Lillard 1-3, Batum 1-5, Blake 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San Antonio 45 (Baynes, K.Leonard 9), Portland 53 (Aldridge 14).

Assists—San Antonio 19 (Diaw 9), Portland 18 (Batum, Lillard 6). Total Fouls—San Antonio 21, Portland 19. A—19,441 (19,980).

Clippers 113, Pistons 91 DETROIT (91) Singler 2-9 0-0 6, Smith 4-11 0-2 8, Drummond 8-16 2-6 18, Jennings 2-6 1-1 6, CaldwellPope 1-5 0-2 2, Monroe 6-11 3-4 15, Meeks 5-10 7-7 20, Butler 3-4 0-0 7, Augustin 0-1 0-0 0, Jerebko 3-6 0-0 7, Dinwiddie 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 35-83 13-22 91.

L.A. CLIPPERS (113) Barnes 3-7 1-1 10, Griffin 7-16 3-4 18, Jordan 7-9 2-4 16, Paul 4-7 1-1 11, Redick 7-9 0-1 14, Farmar 6-12 0-0 15, Crawford 0-6 5-5 5, Davis 4-5 0-0 8, Douglas-Roberts 3-5 2-2 9, Turkoglu 2-3 0-0 6, Udoh 0-1 0-0 0, Cunningham 0-0 1-2 1, Bullock 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-80 15-20 113.

Detroit 27 17 19 28 — 91 L.A. Clippers 29 26 31 27 — 113 3-Point Goals—Detroit 8-27 (Meeks 3-5, Singler 2-7, Butler 1-1, Jennings 1-3, Jerebko 1-3, Augustin 0-1, Smith 0-1, Caldwell-Pope 0-3, Dinwiddie 0-3), L.A. Clippers 12-24 (Barnes 3-6, Farmar 3-7, Turkoglu 2-3, Paul 2-3, DouglasRoberts 1-1, Griffin 1-1, Redick 0-1, Crawford 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Detroit 51 (Drummond 13), L.A. Clippers 48 (Jordan 15).

Assists—Detroit 23 (Jennings 6), L.A. Clippers 35 (Paul 8). Total Fouls—Detroit 19, L.A. Clippers 21. Technicals—Drummond, Detroit Coach Van Gundy, Detroit defensive three second, Redick.

A—19,060 (19,060).

Pacers 110, Lakers 91 L.A. LAKERS (91) Johnson 4-7 2-2 13, Davis 0-5 0-0 0, J.Hill 2-7 2-2 6, Price 2-5 0-0 5, Bryant 8-26 3-3 21, Boozer 3-8 7-10 13, Lin 0-6 2-2 2, Sacre 0-2 1-2 1, Young 6-12 4-4 18, Ellington 3-5 0-0 7, Clarkson 1-5 2-4 5. Totals 29-88 23-29 91.

INDIANA (110) S.Hill 1-4 2-2 4, West 5-9 2-2 12, Hibbert 5-10 0-0 10, Watson 3-3 6-7 12, Stuckey 6-14 8-10 20, Allen 3-5 0-0 6, Miles 8-16 1-2 20, Scola 2-6 4-4 9, Sloan 7-12 0-0 17, Rudez 0-3 0-0 0, Copeland 0-0 0-0 0, Whittington 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 40-83 23-27 110.

COMMUNITY | Roundup 11, Charlie Sevenants 0, Maya McFadden 0, Sierra Nash 0, Kianna Garner 3, Samantha Fatkin 16, Paisley Johnson 9, Kayla Watkins 9. 3-point goals—Short 2, Bielser 2, Ludwig 1, Fatkin 2, Rasmussen 1, Garner 1. Records—Arlington 5-1 overall. Glacier Peak 6-0.

Shorewood 65, M. Pilchuck 18 At Marysville Pilchuck H.S. Shorewood 19 10 19 17 — 65 M. Pilchuck 3 5 6 4 — 18 Shorewood—Danica Bernabe 6, Mika Morgan 3, Abby Gustafson 2, Ledia Musye 7, Tamyra Clark-Hoogstrate 0, Lily Gustafson 14, Kaitlyn Amundsen 2, Karrin Leazer 4, Taryn Shelley 18, Jalyn Hizey 9. Marysville Pilchuck—Catrina Wright 3, Skyleen Inthathirath 6, Bianca Acurio 0, Bailey Nelson 0, Olivia Lee 0, Amanda Kalab 5, Dominique Jenkins 0, Tatiana Gomez 2, Megan Gross 2. 3-point goals—Hizey 2, Morgan 1, Musye 1, Kalab 1. Records—Shorewood 2-2 overall. Marysville Pilchuck 0-6.

Meadowdale 51, Oak Harbor 37 At Oak Harbor H.S. Meadowdale 17 8 12 14 — 51 Oak Harbor 10 6 10 11 — 37

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 14, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking

Record Pts Prv 1. South Carolina (25) 9-0 865 1 2. UConn (6) 6-1 828 2 3. Texas (4) 8-0 795 3 4. Texas A&M 11-0 768 4 5. Notre Dame 10-1 741 5 6. North Carolina 9-0 709 6 7. Stanford 6-2 636 7 8. Kentucky 10-1 609 8 9. Baylor 8-1 579 9 10. Louisville 8-1 553 10 11. Tennessee 7-2 518 11 12. Nebraska 9-1 437 12 13. Duke 5-3 423 13 14. Maryland 8-2 409 14 15. Georgia 10-0 378 16 16. Oregon St. 7-0 364 15 17. Rutgers 8-2 283 17 18. Michigan St. 6-2 251 19 19. Oklahoma St. 6-1 225 20 19. Syracuse 7-1 225 20 21. Mississippi St. 10-0 224 22 22. West Virginia 8-1 150 23 23. Iowa 8-2 90 24 24. California 7-2 80 18 25. DePaul 6-3 71 25 Others receiving votes: Green Bay 43, Northwestern 19, Arizona St. 18, St. John’s 17, Princeton 15, Oregon 14, Washington 8, James Madison 7, W. Kentucky 7, Oklahoma 5, Washington St. 5, Florida St. 4, Arkansas 2.

CHICAGO (86) Dunleavy 4-9 1-2 11, Gibson 7-11 1-1 15, Gasol 6-15 1-2 13, Rose 6-21 2-3 14, Butler 8-17 3-3 22, Hinrich 0-7 0-0 0, Mirotic 1-7 1-2 3, Brooks 3-6 1-1 8. Totals 35-93 10-14 86.

ATLANTA (93) Carroll 3-5 0-0 7, Millsap 6-16 4-6 17, Horford 10-19 1-2 21, Teague 5-12 2-2 12, Korver 4-9 0-0 12, Sefolosha 0-1 2-2 2, Brand 3-5 2-2 8, Schroder 2-6 0-0 4, Scott 2-5 0-0 5, Bazemore 1-5 3-3 5. Totals 36-83 14-17 93.

Chicago Atlanta

22 22 20 22 — 86 28 22 23 20 — 93

3-Point Goals—Chicago 6-29 (Butler 3-5, Dunleavy 2-5, Brooks 1-4, Hinrich 0-4, Mirotic 0-4, Rose 0-7), Atlanta 7-21 (Korver 4-8, Millsap 1-2, Carroll 1-2, Scott 1-3, Schroder 0-1, Horford 0-1, Bazemore 0-2, Teague 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago 68 (Gibson 17), Atlanta 44 (Horford 10). Assists—Chicago 18 (Rose 8), Atlanta 26 (Teague 7). Total Fouls— Chicago 17, Atlanta 17. Technicals—Carroll.

A—16,805 (18,729).

Celtics 105, 76ers 87 BOSTON (105) Green 4-8 5-8 14, Sullinger 2-10 0-2 5, Zeller 1-6 3-4 5, Rondo 2-3 1-2 5, Bradley 6-20 2-3 15, Olynyk 12-17 3-3 30, Turner 5-10 2-2 12, Bass 6-9 2-5 14, Wallace 0-0 0-0 0, Pressey 0-3 4-4 4, Powell 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 38-86 23-35 105.

PHILADELPHIA (87) Covington 4-15 3-3 13, Mbah a Moute 4-10 1-2 9, Noel 9-12 1-1 19, Carter-Williams 5-12 2-4 13, Thompson 1-3 0-0 2, McDaniels 2-10 2-2 6, Sims 1-8 3-4 5, Wroten 0-3 0-0 0, Grant 1-6 0-0 2, Shved 3-8 3-3 10, Aldemir 1-3 0-0 2, Sampson 2-3 2-2 6. Totals 33-93 17-21 87.

Boston 30 27 31 17 — 105 Philadelphia 25 13 26 23 — 87 3-Point Goals—Boston 6-25 (Olynyk 3-5, Green 1-3, Sullinger 1-3, Bradley 1-11, Turner 0-1, Pressey 0-2), Philadelphia 4-28 (Covington 2-8, Shved 1-2, Carter-Williams 1-5, Thompson 0-1, Grant 0-1, Sampson 0-1, Sims 0-1, Wroten 0-2, Mbah a Moute 0-3, McDaniels 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Boston 63 (Sullinger 11), Philadelphia 61 (Noel 8). Assists—Boston 26 (Rondo 7), Philadelphia 19 (Carter-Williams 6). Total Fouls—Boston 23, Philadelphia 28.

A—12,903 (20,318).

Raptors 95, Magic 82 ORLANDO (82) Harris 8-15 2-2 18, Frye 1-6 0-0 3, Vucevic 6-13 1-3 13, Oladipo 6-12 0-0 12, Fournier 4-10 2-2 11, B.Gordon 7-11 0-0 16, Payton 2-3 0-0 4, Harkless 1-3 1-1 3, O’Quinn 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 3674 6-8 82.

TORONTO (95) Ross 3-11 0-0 9, A.Johnson 5-8 1-2 11, Valanciunas 2-6 2-2 6, Lowry 6-12 1-2 17, Fields 3-6 1-2 8, J.Johnson 4-5 0-0 8, Patterson 4-6 0-0 10, Williams 6-14 5-7 18, Vasquez 2-9 0-0 4, Hansbrough 2-6 0-0 4. Totals 37-83 10-15 95.

Orlando Toronto

25 27 13 17 — 82 28 16 27 24 — 95

3-Point Goals—Orlando 4-15 (B.Gordon 2-4, Fournier 1-3, Frye 1-4, Oladipo 0-2, Harris 0-2), Toronto 11-30 (Lowry 4-6, Ross 3-7, Patterson 2-4, Fields 1-1, Williams 1-5, J.Johnson 0-1, Hansbrough 0-1, Vasquez 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Orlando 43 (Vucevic 9), Toronto 48 (Valanciunas 8). Assists—Orlando 13 (Oladipo 4), Toronto 25 (Lowry 8). Total Fouls— Orlando 19, Toronto 14. A—19,800 (19,800).

College Men’s Scores Gonzaga 94, Texas Southern 54 TEXAS SOUTHERN (1-8) Biggs 4-6 2-2 12, Thomas 3-6 0-2 6, Gibbs 5-12 1-3 12, Riley 0-4 2-2 2, Shepherd 3-4 1-1 7, Blanks 4-10 3-5 11, Mack 0-0 0-0 0, Carter 2-15 0-2 4, Johnson 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 21-59 9-17 54.

GONZAGA (10-1) Nunez 4-6 0-0 8, Pangos 3-5 2-2 11, Bell Jr. 2-3 0-0 6, Sabonis 5-7 6-8 16, Wesley 2-3 0-0 4, Melson 6-10 0-0 13, Dranginis 0-2 5-6 5, Griffin 0-0 0-0 0, Bakamus 1-1 0-0 2, Karnowski 2-6 1-2 5, Wiltjer 9-11 0-0 21, Triano 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 35-55 14-18 94.

Halftime—Gonzaga 40-16. 3-Point Goals— Texas Southern 3-17 (Biggs 2-2, Gibbs 1-4, Thomas 0-1, Johnson 0-1, Blanks 0-2, Carter 0-7), Gonzaga 10-19 (Wiltjer 3-3, Pangos 3-5, Bell Jr. 2-3, Triano 1-1, Melson 1-3, Nunez 0-2, Dranginis 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Texas Southern 27 (Shepherd 5), Gonzaga 38 (Nunez 7). Assists—Texas Southern 8 (Blanks 2), Gonzaga 17 (Pangos 6). Total Fouls—Texas Southern 16, Gonzaga 14. A—6,000.

Men’s AP Top 25

USA Today Top 25

Bucks 96, Suns 94

3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 8-16 (Dudley 3-5, Mayo 2-3, Middleton 2-3, Bayless 1-1, Marshall 0-1, Knight 0-3), Phoenix 12-38 (Thomas 4-7, Mark.Morris 2-3, Tucker 2-4, Green 2-15, Tolliver 1-3, Marc.Morris 1-4, Bledsoe 0-2).

Fouled Out—Len. Rebounds—Milwaukee 43 (Antetokounmpo 8), Phoenix 49 (Green 8). Assists—Milwaukee 23 (Pachulia, Dudley 5), Phoenix 17 (Tucker, Bledsoe 4). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 27, Phoenix 24. Flagrant Fouls—Mayo, Len. A—17,327 (18,055).

Cavaliers 97, Hornets 88 CHARLOTTE (88) Kidd-Gilchrist 0-4 1-2 1, Zeller 1-4 2-2 4, Jefferson 7-13 0-0 14, Walker 11-20 1-2 24, Stephenson 4-12 0-2 8, Henderson 4-7 0-0 8, Neal 3-10 1-2 8, Williams 4-6 0-0 10, Biyombo 1-1 2-4 4, Roberts 3-6 0-0 7. Totals 38-83 7-14 88.

CLEVELAND (97) James 11-19 3-4 27, Love 7-14 4-5 22, Varejao 4-12 0-0 8, Irving 6-14 3-4 16, Marion 2-4 0-0 4, Waiters 3-10 0-0 7, Thompson 4-6 2-4 10, Dellavedova 0-2 0-0 0, Harris 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 38-83 12-17 97.

Charlotte 17 28 23 20 — 88 Cleveland 34 20 26 17 — 97 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 5-16 (Williams 2-4, Roberts 1-2, Walker 1-2, Neal 1-5, Stephen-

Everett—Megan Dedrick 5, Caroline Overstreet 12, Sydney Taggart 14, Siena Utt 2, Kristen Snyder 0, Kiana Keithley 0, Brittany Pedigo 2, Erin Gordon 0, Kate Pohland 8, Alexis Rutter 0, Katy Hedington 4. Edmonds-Woodway—Kate Wooley 10, Allie Browning 0, Mady Burdett 5, Marivel Ortega 2, Natalie Kasper 18, Kendra Cooper 2, Claire Fyfe 10, Keitra Jones 1, Moni Jackson 11, Lea Bakken 0, Missy Peterson 12.

3-point goals—Dedrick 1, Overstreet 4, Taggart 4, Pohland 2, Wooley 1, Burdett 1, Kasper 1, Jackson 1. Records—Everett 2-3 overall.

Edmonds-Woodway 5-0.

Hawks 93, Bulls 86

Milwaukee 14 30 23 29 — 96 Phoenix 26 27 19 22 — 94

3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 10-26 (Johnson 3-5, Young 2-6, Bryant 2-8, Price 1-2, Clarkson 1-2, Ellington 1-2, Lin 0-1), Indiana 7-17 (Sloan 3-4, Miles 3-8, Scola 1-1, S.Hill 0-1, Rudez 0-3).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 48 (Boozer 10), Indiana 64 (Stuckey 10). Assists— L.A. Lakers 14 (Bryant 3), Indiana 21 (Stuckey 7).

Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 20, Indiana 20. Technicals—Bryant. A—15,261 (18,165).

At Edmonds-Woodway Everett 12 16 10 9 — 37 Ed-Woodway 20 18 15 18 — 71

Others receiving votes: Baylor 49, Northern Iowa 40, Colorado State 29, Georgetown 28, California 26, TCU 26, Seton Hall 19, Illinois 13, Arkansas 12, Oklahoma State 9, Old Dominion 7, Florida 4, LSU 4, Iowa 3, Minnesota 1, Penn State 1, Saint Mary’s 1, VCU 1.

MILWAUKEE (96) Antetokounmpo 2-7 2-3 6, Parker 3-7 2-2 8, Sanders 0-2 0-0 0, Knight 7-18 6-6 20, Mayo 3-4 4-4 12, Bayless 4-8 2-2 11, Marshall 1-2 0-0 2, Dudley 3-7 1-2 10, Pachulia 6-9 1-3 13, Middleton 6-9 0-0 14. Totals 35-73 18-22 96.

PHOENIX (94) Tucker 2-6 0-0 6, Mark.Morris 9-13 5-5 25, Len 2-7 2-3 6, Bledsoe 4-9 3-4 11, Green 3-18 4-4 12, Thomas 6-12 4-5 20, Plumlee 1-1 2-4 4, Marc.Morris 2-6 0-0 5, Tolliver 1-3 0-0 3, Warren 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 30-75 22-27 94.

15 12 31 33 — 91 34 26 29 21 — 110

Ed-Woodway 71, Everett 37

son 0-3), Cleveland 9-24 (Love 4-9, James 2-3, Harris 1-2, Irving 1-4, Waiters 1-5, Dellavedova 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 45 (Jefferson 8), Cleveland 57 (Love 18). Assists—Charlotte 22 (Neal 6), Cleveland 28 (James 13). Total Fouls—Charlotte 14, Cleveland 14. Technicals—Henderson. A—20,562 (20,562).

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 14, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking

Record Pts Prv 1. Kentucky (65) 11-0 1,625 1 2. Duke 8-0 1,545 2 3. Arizona 10-0 1,505 3 4. Louisville 9-0 1,349 4 5. Wisconsin 10-1 1,331 5 6. Virginia 9-0 1,294 6 7. Villanova 10-0 1,215 7 8. Gonzaga 9-1 1,175 9 9. Texas 8-1 1,154 8 10. Kansas 8-1 1,102 10 11. Wichita St. 7-1 959 11 12. Ohio St. 8-1 838 12 13. Iowa St. 8-1 772 14 14. Utah 7-2 670 13 15. Oklahoma 6-2 647 16 16. Washington 8-0 598 17 17. Maryland 10-1 512 19 18. Miami 9-1 426 20 19. San Diego St. 7-2 424 18 20. St. John’s 8-1 353 24 21. Notre Dame 10-1 351 25 22. West Virginia 9-1 333 22 23. Butler 8-2 259 15 24. North Carolina 6-3 122 21 25. Michigan St. 7-3 116 — Others receiving votes: Baylor 97, TCU 80, Colorado St. 75, N. Iowa 65, Georgetown 41, California 37, Arkansas 19, Seton Hall 14, VCU 6, LSU 4, Oklahoma St. 4, Old Dominion 4, Penn St. 3, Davidson 1.

L.A. Lakers Indiana

Meadowdale—Ciara Hart 7, Selina Tekle 3, Kassi Dotter 9, Emily Carroll 3, Alexandria Steen 16, Grace Wilson 6, Lauren Hunnewell 5, Samantha Gregoryk 0, Emma Helm 3. Oak Harbor—Rashanna Graham 4, Janae Payne 3, Bryn Langrock 10, Jinai Guzman 5, Deja Bunch 8, Julie Jansen 4, Taylor DeConzo 0, AnnaBelle Whitefoot 2, Sierra Southwick 0, Hayley Lundstrom 2, Montana Koslowski 2. 3-point goals—Carroll 1, Helm 1, Langrock 2, Guzman 1. Records— Meadowdale 3-3 overall. Oak Harbor 0-7.

The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 14, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

Record Pts Pvs 1. Kentucky (29) 11-0 773 1 2. Duke (1) 8-0 736 2 3. Arizona (1) 10-0 721 3 4. Louisville 9-0 658 4 5. Virginia 9-0 633 5 6. Wisconsin 10-1 619 6 7. Villanova 10-0 592 7 8. Gonzaga 9-1 556 8 9. Texas 8-1 539 9 10. Kansas 8-1 519 10 11. Wichita State 7-1 439 11 12. Ohio State 8-1 417 12 13. Iowa State 8-1 373 13 14. Utah 7-2 300 14 15. Oklahoma 6-2 295 15 16. Washington 8-0 287 17 17. San Diego State 7-2 246 16 18. Maryland 10-1 214 20 19. Miami 9-1 164 21 20. West Virginia 9-1 159 21 21. Notre Dame 10-1 155 — 22. Michigan State 7-3 122 23 23. St. John’s 8-1 114 — 24. North Carolina 6-3 86 18 25. Butler 8-2 85 19

AP Women’s Top 25

FOOTBALL National Football League NFC

Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago

West W L 11 3 10 4 7 7 6 8 East W L 10 4 9 5 5 9 3 11 South W L 6 8 5 8 5 9 2 12 North W L 10 4 10 4 6 8 5 9

T Pct PF PA 0 .786 287 244 0 .714 339 242 0 .500 251 285 0 .429 291 297 T Pct PF PA 0 .714 381 328 0 .643 416 347 0 .357 317 339 0 .214 257 370 T Pct PF PA 0 .429 364 374 1 .393 288 358 0 .357 348 369 0 .143 254 367 T Pct PF PA 0 .714 281 238 0 .714 436 325 0 .429 277 297 0 .357 296 409

AFC West W L T Pct PF PA 11 3 0 .786 407 303 8 6 0 .571 322 254 8 6 0 .571 303 294 2 12 0 .143 213 381 East

W L T Pct PF PA x-New England 11 3 0 .786 442 280 Buffalo 8 6 0 .571 302 254 Miami 7 7 0 .500 327 301 N.Y. Jets 3 11 0 .214 230 360 South

W L T Pct PF PA x-Indianapolis 10 4 0 .714 424 317 Houston 7 7 0 .500 324 277 Tennessee 2 12 0 .143 231 390 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 211 376 North

W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 9 4 1 .679 311 289 Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 389 339 Baltimore 9 5 0 .643 376 267 Cleveland 7 7 0 .500 276 300 x-clinched division Monday’s game New Orleans 31, Chicago 15 Thursday’s game Tennessee at Jacksonville, 5:25 p.m.

Saturday’s games Philadelphia at Washington, 1:30 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 5:25 p.m.

Sunday’s games Baltimore at Houston, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 10 a.m.

Minnesota at Miami, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at Carolina, 10 a.m.

Green Bay at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at St. Louis, 1:05 p.m.

Buffalo at Oakland, 1:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Dallas, 1:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 5:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 22 Denver at Cincinnati, 5:30 p.m.

x-Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

Saints 31, Bears 15 New Orleans 0 14 10 7 — 31 Chicago 0 0 0 15 — 15 Second Quarter NO—Hill 8 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), 14:52.

NO—Colston 9 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), :32.

Third Quarter NO—Hill 7 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), 8:35.

NO—FG S.Graham 25, :16.

Fourth Quarter Chi—Wilson 1 pass from Cutler (Bennett pass from Cutler), 12:47.

NO—Ingram 15 run (S.Graham kick), 1:47.

Chi—Jeffery 7 pass from Cutler (Feely kick), :30.

A—60,996.

NO Chi First downs 25 16 Total Net Yards 443 278 Rushes-yards 26-83 20-125 Passing 360 153 Punt Returns 3-21 1-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 6-162 Interceptions Ret. 3-55 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 29-36-0 17-31-3 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 7-41 Punts 5-43.4 6-49.8 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 3-25 9-74 Time of Possession 33:31 26:29 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—New Orleans, Ingram 17-59, Thomas 2-11, K.Robinson 3-10, Brees 3-2, Lorig 1-1. Chicago, Forte 16-78, Morgan 1-21, Cutler 1-20, Carey 1-4, McCray 1-2.

PASSING—New Orleans, Brees 29-36-0-375.

Chicago, Cutler 17-31-3-194.

RECEIVING—New Orleans, J.Graham 5-87, Thomas 5-83, Stills 5-67, Colston 5-65, Toon 4-43, Hill 2-15, K.Robinson 2-10, Watson 1-5.

Chicago, Jeffery 4-78, Bennett 4-36, Carey 3-39, Wilson 3-16, Forte 2-21, Rosario 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—New Orleans, S.Graham 51 (SH).

HOCKEY NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 32 21 6 5 47 95 83 30 18 10 2 38 89 86 32 17 11 4 38 90 82 31 15 10 6 36 82 73 32 17 13 2 36 95 85 30 10 16 4 24 70 99 31 7 19 5 19 65 104 Central Division

Anaheim Vancouver San Jose Los Angeles Calgary Arizona Edmonton

Stanwood 51, M. Terrace 23 At Stanwood H.S. M. Terrace Stanwood

2 6 7 8 — 23 6 22 13 10 — 51

Mountlake Terrace—Claire Zucker 4, Skylar Zenk 0, Maddie Powers 0, Jorie Lambert 3, Torrey DeAlba 0, Jasmine Zenk 8, Riley Zucker 6, Juanita Johnson 2, Ashley Klippert 0. Stanwood— Kayla Frazier 0, Kylie Wright 0, Jillian Heichel 3, Haley Strowbridge 8, Kaitlin Larson 23, Ashley Bierer 3, Ashley Alter 7, Tristan Murphy 3, Julia Heichel 4. 3-point goals—Strowbridge 2, Ji. Heichel 1. Records—Mountlake Terrace 1-5 overall. Stanwood 6-1.

Highland Christian 34, Lummi 13 At Highland Christian School Lummi 4 0 4 5 — 13 H. Christian 11 9 4 10 — 34 Lummi—Sabryn Tom 0, Janyha Ell 2, Tressah Toby 0, Marleneh Jefferson 0, Mikki Revey 3, Sarah Burke 6, Tonya Teton 0, Jayda Phair 0, Carla Lawrence 2. Highland Christian—Chloe Brown 24, Katie Costley 6, Alaina Hayward 0, Craylise Jacobsen 0, Naomi Nuss 4. 3-point goals—Costley 1. Records—Lummi 0-1 league, 0-2 overall. Highland Christian 2-2, 3-2.

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 31 21 9 1 43 95 61 St. Louis 30 20 8 2 42 89 70 Nashville 29 19 8 2 40 78 57 Winnipeg 31 15 10 6 36 73 74 Minnesota 28 16 11 1 33 81 70 Dallas 29 11 13 5 27 85 103 Colorado 30 10 13 7 27 78 98 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 31 17 7 7 41 92 79 Tampa Bay 32 19 10 3 41 107 86 Montreal 31 19 10 2 40 83 79 Toronto 30 18 9 3 39 103 85 Florida 28 12 8 8 32 64 74 Boston 30 15 13 2 32 76 78 Ottawa 30 12 12 6 30 80 86 Buffalo 31 13 16 2 28 61 95 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 30 20 6 4 44 98 71 N.Y. Islanders 31 21 10 0 42 99 89 Washington 29 14 10 5 33 85 79 N.Y. Rangers 28 14 10 4 32 84 77 New Jersey 32 11 15 6 28 74 94 Philadelphia 29 11 13 5 27 79 87 Columbus 29 12 15 2 26 71 95 Carolina 29 8 18 3 19 61 83 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Today’s games Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Anaheim at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

Carolina at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.

Columbus at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 4:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Boston at Nashville, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Arizona, 6 p.m.

Islanders 3, Devils 2 (SO) New Jersey 2 0 0 0 — 2 N.Y. Islanders 0 1 1 0 — 3 N.Y. Islanders won shootout 2-1 First Period—1, New Jersey, Zidlicky 4 (Gomez, Jagr), 12:15 (pp). 2, New Jersey, Gomez 2 (Jagr, Zidlicky), 15:20.

Second Period—3, N.Y. Islanders, Bailey 5 (Strome, Grabovski), 1:51.

Third Period—4, N.Y. Islanders, Martin 4 (Cizikas, de Haan), 10:45.

Overtime—None.

Shootout—New Jersey 1 (Ruutu NG, Gomez G, Severson NG, Zidlicky NG, Josefson NG), N.Y. Islanders 2 (Nielsen NG, Okposo G, Tavares NG, Strome NG, Bailey G).

Shots on Goal—New Jersey 12-7-7-2—28.

N.Y. Islanders 7-11-13-2—33.

Goalies—New Jersey, Kinkaid. N.Y. Islanders, Halak. A—13,408 (16,170). T—2:34.

Middle school runner crowned national champ Herald staff Taylor Roe is a national champion — again.

Roe, an eighth-grader at Olympic View Middle School in Mukilteo, won the girls 13-14 age division Saturday at the National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Roe finished the four-kilometer race on the Whispering Pines Golf Course in 13 minutes, 52.68 seconds, narrowly edging runnerup Devianna Salcedo of California at the finish line. Salcedo’s time was 13:52.92.

“The athletes were neck-and-neck throughout the course until the final 20 meters, when Roe kicked for the finish,” USA Track and Field reported on its website.

A total of 384 runners competed in the race.

This is not the first time Roe has won a national Junior Olympic title in cross country. Two years ago, she placed first in the girls 11-12 division.

Ice Emeralds earn medal The Washington Ice Emeralds, the state’s only competitive synchronized ice skating team, traveled to California last month to participate in the 14th annual Anaheim Ice Synchronized Team Championships.

The Ice Emeralds placed

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Taylor Roe won the girls 13-14 age division Saturday at the National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

sixth, earning them the purple medal.

The Ice Emeralds are made up of 13 female skaters ranging in age from 11 to 17, including skaters from Everett and Lake Stevens. The team practices at the SnoKing Arena in Kirkland and is coached by Tina Kuperschmidt, Ashley Chaudiere and Danielle Buckley.

For a photo of the team, visit www.heraldnet.com/ communitysports.

To find out more about the Ice Emeralds, visit their website at www.wiesst.org.

Items for the Community Roundup can be submitted by e-mail (sports@heraldnet. com), by fax (425-339-3435) or by mail (P.O. Box 930, Everett, Wash.). The deadline is noon Sunday.

Penguins 4, Lightning 2

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n Registration for the City of Mountlake Terrace’s Men’s Basketball League runs through Dec. 21. Play begins the first week of January. Three divisions are available: Advanced (Wednesdays), Intermediate (Wednesdays) and Recreational (Mondays). The team fee is $630. For more information, call 425-776-9173.

n Registration for the City of Mountlake Terrace’s Coed Volleyball League runs through Dec. 21. Matches are on Tuesday evenings beginning Jan. 6. Two divisions are available: Competitive and Recreational. The team fee is $334. For more information, call 425-776-9173. n The City of Edmonds is accepting registration for its Women’s 4-on-4 Volleyball League on Thursday evenings at Edmonds Community College. The team fee is $385. For more information, call Todd at 425-771-0229 or visit www.reczone.org.

Items for the Bulletin Board can be submitted by e-mail (sports@heraldnet.com), by fax (425-339-3435) or by mail (P.O. Box 930, Everett, Wash.).

The deadline is noon Sunday.

1 0 1 — 2 1 2 1 — 4

First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Sutter 7 (Scuderi), 19:09 (sh). 2, Tampa Bay, Drouin 2 (Johnson, Kucherov), 19:33 (pp).

Second Period—3, Pittsburgh, Rust 1 (Ebbett), 2:55. 4, Pittsburgh, Downie 5 (Hornqvist, Malkin), 19:26 (pp).

Third Period—5, Pittsburgh, Dumoulin 1 (Downie, Spaling), 7:47. 6, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 12 (Filppula), 16:56.

Shots on Goal—Tampa Bay 12-8-10—30.

Pittsburgh 5-10-11—26.

Goalies—Tampa Bay, Bishop, Nabokov.

Pittsburgh, Fleury. A—18,487 (18,387). T—2:23.

Sabres 5, Senators 4 (SO) Ottawa Buffalo

1 1 2 0 — 4 0 3 1 0 — 5

Buffalo won shootout 1-0 First Period—1, Ottawa, Ryan 7 (Hoffman, Zibanejad), 7:24.

Second Period—2, Buffalo, Ristolainen 2 (Stewart, Gionta), 4:11 (pp). 3, Buffalo, Moulson 7 (Meszaros, Ennis), 7:00. 4, Buffalo, Foligno 5 (Flynn, Myers), 7:32. 5, Ottawa, Stone 7 (Turris, Ceci), 13:42.

Third Period—6, Ottawa, Lazar 1 (Condra, Chiasson), 2:02. 7, Ottawa, Chiasson 7 (Borowiecki), 5:04. 8, Buffalo, Flynn 4 (Foligno, Benoit), 16:31.

Overtime—None.

Shootout—Ottawa 0 (Zibanejad NG, Turris NG, Ryan NG), Buffalo 1 (Moulson G, Ennis NG, Girgensons NG).

Shots on Goal—Ottawa 6-9-14-4—33. Buffalo 9-10-13-1—33.

Goalies—Ottawa, Lehner. Buffalo, Enroth.

A—14,578 (19,070). T—2:45.

Lacrosse

Western Hockey League

BASEBALL | Notebook

WESTERN CONFERENCE U.S. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Everett 31 19 8 3 1 104 86 42 Portland 36 19 14 0 3 122 124 41 Spokane 31 16 12 3 0 83 87 35 Tri-City 33 17 15 0 1 93 89 35 Seattle 32 13 15 2 2 81 88 30 B.C. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 34 26 5 3 0 147 82 55 Victoria 35 17 16 2 0 111 119 36 Prince George 33 17 16 0 0 103 131 34 Kamloops 36 13 18 3 2 109 131 31 Vancouver 33 15 18 0 0 103 109 30 EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Brandon 34 24 7 2 1 155 110 51 Regina 31 19 11 1 0 114 88 39 Swift Current 34 16 14 0 4 105 110 36 Moose Jaw 33 15 15 2 1 100 113 33 Prince Albert 34 15 18 1 0 100 113 31 Saskatoon 34 7 24 2 1 89 156 17 CENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Medicine Hat 33 23 8 1 1 126 83 48 Calgary 33 19 11 1 2 133 98 41 Red Deer 34 18 12 3 1 121 111 40 Edmonton 33 15 13 3 2 102 97 35 Kootenay 34 17 17 0 0 104 127 34 Lethbridge 31 6 20 3 2 72 125 17 Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Today’s games Regina vs. Brandon Lethbridge vs. Moose Jaw Kelowna vs. Edmonton Kamloops vs. Kootenay Spokane vs. Prince George Everett vs. Vancouver Victoria vs. Seattle

LINE FAVORITE TODAY UNDERDOG NFL Thursday at Jacksonville 3 Tennessee Saturday at San Francisco 2½ San Diego Philadelphia 8½ at Washington Sunday at Miami 6½ Minnesota Green Bay 10½ at Tampa Bay Detroit 4½ at Chicago at New Orleans 6½ Atlanta New England 10 at N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh 3 Kansas City at Carolina OFF Cleveland Baltimore 4 at Houston at St. Louis 5 N.Y. Giants Buffalo 5½ at Oakland at Dallas 3 Indianapolis Seattle 7½ at Arizona Monday Denver 3½ at Cincinnati Off Key Carolina QB questionable

n The Everett Lacrosse Club is accepting registration for the 2015 season. The program is for boys and girls in grades 3-12 who attend the Everett and Marysville school districts. For more information, visit the club’s website at everettlacrosseclub.org.

Headley will stay with Yankees Associated Press NEW YORK— Chase Headley is staying with the Yankees, a sign New York is not counting on Alex Rodriguez to play third base regularly.

Headley and the Yankees are working to finalize a $52 million, four-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations said Monday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been completed.

Coming off a season-long suspension for violations of baseball’s drug agreement and labor contract, Rodriguez is owed $61 million over the final three seasons of his $275 million, 10-year deal. The agreement with Headley signals New York is planning to shift A-Rod to designated hitter, relegate him to a backup role or perhaps even seek trade offers.

Headley batted .262 with six homers and 17 RBI in 191 at-bats for New York.

He arrived in the Yankee Stadium dugout in the second inning on the night of the trade following a flight

from Chicago, and his 14thinning single at the stroke of midnight gave the Yankees a 2-1 win over Texas. On Sept. 4, he followed Mark Teixeira’s tying home run in the ninth off Koji Uehara with a winning drive deep into the right-field bleachers for a 5-4 victory over Boston.

Royals add Rios KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Outfielder Alex Rios and the Kansas City Royals have agreed to an $11 million, one-year contract, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Monday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal was subject to Rios passing a physical.

Harper agrees with Nats WASHINGTON— Outfielder Bryce Harper and the Washington Nationals came to terms on a $7.5 million, two-year contract, avoiding a grievance hearing.

Harper will receive salaries of $2.5 million in 2015, and $5 million in 2016 from the reigning NL East champions, according to a person familiar with the agreement who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday because the deal had not been announced.

The Daily Herald Tuesday, 12.16.2014

Cowboys’ Murray has broken hand

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By Schuyler Dixon Associated Press

IRVING, Texas — NFL rushing leader DeMarco Murray has a broken left hand in what could be a damaging blow to the playoff hopes of the Dallas Cowboys.

Murray was set for surgery Monday and might be sidelined Sunday at home against Indianapolis, already a playoff qualifier. Even though the Cowboys just beat Philadelphia to take the NFC East lead, they might have to win both of their remaining games to end a fouryear postseason drought.

If the Eagles beat division alsorans Washington and the New York Giants in their final two games, Dallas (10-4) could be knocked out by a loss to the Colts even with a win against the Redskins in the regular-season finale.

Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said on his radio show Monday that it was “probably a tough expectation” that Murray would play against Indianapolis (10-4), though he wouldn’t rule it out. Neither would coach Jason Garrett.

“The biggest question we have to ask ourselves is, is he functional to do his job,” Garrett said.

“Can he hold the football, can he carry it under duress, can he block, can he do the things necessary to play the position. He’s as strong-willed and determined an individual as I’ve ever been around. If anybody has a chance to come back, he does.”

Murray has 1,687 yards rushing and needs 87 yards to break alltime NFL rushing leader Emmitt Smith’s franchise record of 1,773 yards. The fourth-year back is 409 yards ahead of Pittsburgh’s Le’Veon Bell in the race for the rushing title.

Lance Dunbar and Joseph Randle split carries as Murray’s backup in Sunday’s 38-27 win over Philadelphia. Murray was injured near the end of the game.

Television footage showed him leaving the field while wincing in pain.

The Cowboys have had Ryan Williams on their practice squad all season. He was taken 33 picks ahead of Murray by Arizona in the 2011 draft. The Cardinals released him after three mostly injury-plagued seasons. Randle, a fifth-round pick last year, has 34 carries for 237 yards and two touchdowns, including a 17-yarder on his only carry against Chicago two weeks ago.

Dunbar has 26 carries for 91 yards but has done most of his damage as a receiver with 16 catches for 207 yards. He doesn’t have any touchdowns.

Murray has a league-high 351 carries, so the question of a No. 2 back has never really been an issue for the Cowboys. Murray has yet to make it through a full season without missing at least two games because of injuries that included a broken ankle, a sprained foot and a sprained knee.

“We’ll take the surgery first,” Garrett said. “We’ll see how he feels coming out of the surgery and make our next best decisions.”

Titans’ Locker goes on IR with injured shoulder

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DARRON CUMMINGS / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians talks with quarterback Ryan Lindley (14) during the second half of the Cardinals’ game against the St. Louis Rams last Thursday.

Cards pick Lindley Quarterback Ryan Lindley, who is in his third season in the NFL, spent his first two seasons with the Cardinals. He was cut by Arizona following the preseason and was signed to the Chargers’ practice squad. Five weeks ago, following a season-ending injury to Arizona starting quarterback Carson Palmer, the Cardinals re-signed Lindley, who will start Sunday’s game against the Seahawks.

By Bob Baum Associated Press

TEMPE, Ariz. — Five weeks removed from the San Diego practice squad, Ryan Lindley will start at quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals against Seattle on Sunday night.

Head coach Bruce Arians announced the decision Monday following the team’s practice, with experience the deciding factor in choosing Lindley over rookie Logan Thomas in what figures to be the biggest game of the Cardinals’ season.

Arians said he will have a package for Thomas in the game plan and both quarterbacks might see action.

Lindley came on in relief when Drew Stanton went down with a knee injury in Thursday night’s 12-6 victory at St. Louis.

Asked what he said to Lindley when he told him he’d start against Seattle, Arians said, “Go sling it baby. Go have fun.

You’re here for a reason. You’re only on this team because you’re talented enough to be here. You have everything it takes to win the game.”

The stakes for Sunday night’s game are enormous.

The Cardinals, a playoff berth already assured, can clinch the NFC’s No. 1 playoff seed with a win. That would mean

all potential playoff games would be at home, including the Super Bowl, since it’s to be played at University of Phoenix Stadium A loss would leave the teams tied for first in the NFC West, with Seattle holding the tiebreaker by virtue of two wins over Arizona. If the teams were still tied at the end of the regular season the following week, Arizona would be relegated to a wild card berth.

“Knowing that we’re in, there’s some comfort,” Arians said, “but knowing what’s at stake, we don’t want to travel to play.”

With their quarterback issues, the Cardinals are 71⁄2point underdogs at home against the Seahawks.

Arians said he could care less what others think about this game.

“The only one that needs to believe is that locker room,” he said, “and they believe it.

They saw it on the practice field today, and they’ll see it all week. Like I said, it’s easy to be written off. We’ve been written off all year.”

Arizona is 7-0 at home this season and 13-2 since Arians arrived.

Stanton’s sprained right knee is the latest in a long list of injuries that have hit the team.

Arians estimated Stanton

would be back in two to four weeks. The quarterback was riding an exercise bike in the brief portion of practice open to reporters.

Stanton took over as starter after Carson Palmer went down with a season-ending knee injury, also against St. Louis, on Nov. 9. Two days later, Arizona signed Lindley off the Chargers practice squad.

Lindley was Arizona’s No. 3 quarterback, behind Palmer and Stanton, last season.

But the team drafted Thomas in the fourth round and he took the No. 3 spot from Lindley in the preseason.

Now, Thomas finds himself playing behind the quarterback he had beaten out.

“Obviously, you’ve got to be a little disappointed,” he said.

“You’ve waited your entire time to be that person. I understand completely that it’s Ryan’s time, Ryan’s turn, whatever it may be, but I’ll be the No. 1 fan and then when it’s my turn I’ve got to make my plays.”

Lindley was not in the locker room when reporters were allowed there on Monday.

Safety Tyrann Mathieu practiced and is expected to play after missing two games with a broken thumb. He will play with a cast.

“I wasn’t going to miss this one,” he said.

Saints beat Bears 31-15, grab lead in NFC South

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jake Locker’s season is over and now that the Titans have placed him on injured reserve with an injured left shoulder, it’s likely so is his time in Tennessee.

Locker, who played at the University of Washington, dislocated his non-throwing shoulder when hit by Jets defensive end Quinton Coples late in the first half of a 16-11 loss Sunday.

An MRI exam Monday showed Locker needs surgery Tuesday because his shoulder had popped completely out of the socket.

Locker, a four-year veteran, went from being the starter to benched in late October for Zach Mettenberger and back to starter again after the rookie sprained his right, throwing shoulder on Dec. 7. This is his sixth injury and second to end his season early.

CHICAGO — Drew Brees and the Saints found a cure for their problems — playing the Bears.

Brees threw for 375 yards and three touchdowns, and New Orleans beat Chicago 31-15 on Monday night to grab the NFC South lead.

The Saints (6-8) moved into first place ahead of Carolina (5-8-1) and Atlanta (5-9) after losing four of their previous five games. They also rebounded from a 41-10 loss to the Panthers.

Brees completed 29 of 36 passes and reached the 4,000yard mark for the ninth straight year. He threw two touchdown passes to Josh Hill and another to Marques Colston.

Pierre Thomas had five catches for 83 yards. David

Hawthorne had three of New Orleans’ seven sacks and the Saints intercepted three of Jay Cutler’s passes to bring his NFL-leading turnover total to 24.

For the Bears (5-9), the loss comes after a week in which they were again engulfed in controversy. Offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer admitted he was a source behind a critical report by the NFL Network about Cutler, owning up to it in public Friday after earlier asking players and coaches for forgiveness.

Cutler completed 17 of 31 passes for 194 yards, and the Bears couldn’t get anything going. They managed only 278 yards against one of the league’s worst defenses on a soggy night in which thousands of seats went unused.

There were 10,749 no-shows,

and that might not have been a bad thing for the Bears, the way they played.

The Saints went ahead in the second quarter after wasting several opportunities in the opening period. Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller was called for a 17-yard pass-interference penalty trying to defend Jimmy Graham, setting up New Orleans with a first down at the 8.

Brees then rolled to his right on the first play of the second quarter and found an open Hill, who lunged across the goal line.

The first half was so bad for Chicago that its best play of the first two quarters might have been Patrick O’Donnell’s 56-yard punt that went out of bounds at the New Orleans 5 with about four minutes left in the second.

good thought here.”

Even if Okung is unlikely to return this week, Carroll said his left tackle is feeling considerably better than he did Sunday afternoon when he briefly was checked out at a local hospital while his team finished off a 17-7 victory.

“He feels quite a bit better today, but we’ve got to be cautious and make sure we take care of him, so in a couple of days we’ll see how he’s feeling,” Carroll said.

“He’s got a bruised lung from the hit that he took on the interception (return). He was real uncomfortable initially, so they took all the precautions and took him out of here (to the hospital) to get him checked. And he recovered pretty well from that and got home pretty soon after that. Last night he was feeling pretty good, I talked to him fairly late last night and he was feeling a lot better than he did during the game. So we’ll just see what happens and see what the docs say during the next couple of days.”

Presuming Okung does indeed miss a game or two, the Seahawks will turn to second-year lineman Alvin Bailey, who played the second half at left tackle in Okung’s place. Bailey, who went undrafted out of Arkansas last year, started one game at left tackle this season for an injured Okung, and started three games at left guard while James Carpenter was out with an ankle injury.

Carroll admitted that Bailey struggled a bit in emergency duty Sunday, but expects a better result after a full week of practicing with the first-team offense.

“He made it through it,” Carroll said when asked about Bailey’s performance. “He had some good plays and some bad plays. He did some good things but struggled a little bit too. He wasn’t on his best game, but he made it through it and managed to get through the game. It’ll be a lot better, if he’s going to play this week, to get the whole week of preparation getting all the reps and all that. He’s done OK in the past for us at tackle, so we’re going to count on him to do that if he’s called on to play.”

Bailey will need to be on his game assuming he does start.

When Seattle played Arizona last month, the Cardinals sacked Russell Wilson seven times. Arizona’s defense is known for mixing up different blitz looks, something that will present a difficult challenge for Bailey and the rest of Seattle’s line.

The only other injury Carroll reported from Sunday’s win was tight end Tony Moeaki, who “banged his shoulder a little bit. We’ve got to see how that responds. We don’t know that either at this point, but he had a sore shoulder last night.”

The Seahawks are hoping to get center Max Unger and tight end Cooper Helfet back from injuries. And while Carroll didn’t say either would for sure be back, he sounded more optimistic on Helfet, who has been out three games with an ankle injury, saying, “Coop made it back to practice last week and should be pretty good to go this week. We’ll see how it goes again on Wednesday. That’s not for sure yet.”

As for Unger, who has been out four games since injuring his ankle and knee against Kansas City, Carroll said, “It’s a day at a time now. The fact that he practiced (last week) means he can practice again Wednesday, and we’ll see how that goes. He’s real anxious to get back. We’re still hoping that he’ll make some more improvement though; he wasn’t at 100 percent ready or he’d have played in the game.”

Wrong throw, not wrong call Carroll was asked again Monday about the final play of the first half, which not only cost Seattle a shot at a field goal, but also resulted in an interception that was nearly returned for a touchdown, the play during which Okung was injured.

And as was the case after the game, Carroll said he didn’t regret the decision to run one more play with eight seconds left, just that the play didn’t work.

“It didn’t work out,” Carroll said.

“We’ve been practicing those seconds and those opportunities, and we didn’t make the right throw right there. (Russell Wilson) threw the ball down the middle, and we likely wouldn’t have scored — they might have made the tackle. It was a shot to throw the ball at the end zone, and they played so far off that it just didn’t work out right for us. We had planned to still kick the field goal, but we wanted to take one more shot and see what happens, but it didn’t work out.”

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In almost six years Griffis has officiated approximately 1,500 soccer games.

He started with youth leagues and progressed to high school. He also has worked college, semipro and even national youth tournaments.

On the field, his approach “is that it’s the players’ game, so let them decide who’s going to win,” he said. “When you need to come in and call a foul, that’s when your presence is known. But you don’t

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As every official knows, verbal abuse from players, coaches and fans is a sometimes uncomfortable and always predictable part of the job.

“You really have to have a thick skin,” Griffis said with a smile. “Selective hearing, in a sense. ... When you call a foul and a player disagrees with you, he’s going to yell. Now, how much yelling are you going to allow?

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You really have to have a thick skin.

Selective hearing in a sense.”

— Logan Griffis Soccer official

ready to shoot on goal, or if you give them a yellow card. They’re going to say,

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‘That’s crap, ref,’ or something along those lines.

And I just have to let that go because it’s part of the game.”

But if the angry words become personal or overly profane, “that’s a yellow card,” he said. “And sometimes a red (card, an ejection), depending on how abusive it is.”

According to Niccolls, newer officials benefit from mentoring by older, more experienced officials.

“You have to learn how to do this from a referee who knows how to do this,” he explained, “and Logan has really put himself in a position to learn.

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“Some of (his skill) is intuitive, but for him it’s far more intentional. He’s invested a good bit of time to seeking improvement and seeking feedback from those who (officiate) quite well.”

As Griffis progresses, new opportunities keep coming his way. Last month he was in Florida for the 2014 U.S. Soccer Development Academy Winter Showcase, officiating five games in four days. In the coming years he hopes to begin working international youth tournaments.

The goal, he said, is to officiate professional soccer someday, which could mean “being in the MLS and maybe in the World Cup.”

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“That’s a very real dream that I’ve had for a while, but it’s definitely going to take a lot to get there,” said Griffis, who is studying nursing at Kirkland’s Northwest University, where he is a member of the school’s cross country and track teams. “It takes experience, a lot of patience, a lot of hard work and a lot of people to help you. And I’m so blessed to have had people who’ve helped me along the way.

“I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but with my age and with my experience and the people I know, it’s a strong possibility. And to be able to travel the country and the world, reffing soccer games, that’d be really cool. I’d love for it to happen.”

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